Adding date to footer

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Hi,
I created a custom invoice with a footer which has a date (year) that is supposed to automatically change yearly. Since this is my first time using manager, I have to manually write the year there. What is the code to inserting the current year. Thank you

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This isnā€™t intended to be a support forum for themes, but this might give you a starting point:

{% for field in fields %}
    {% if field.label == "Invoice date" %}
        {{ fields.text | date: "%Y" }}
    {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

Based on: date ā€“ Liquid template language - but keeping in mind that Managerā€™s fields are set up differently & have different names.

After a quick test, it doesnā€™t seem to work for me just yet, but with some minor tweaks you can probably find a solution.

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Thanks for the quick response. However just like you rightly said it didnā€™t work. Iā€™m not familiar with the programming language used to create manager so not sure I will be able to try anything else. Thanks for the help anyway. Hope to get someone to point in the right direction

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You donā€™t need to know anything about .NET to work on themes. Just the Liquid templating syntax used by Shopify (and Manager).

Based on this comment, I assumed that you had already worked with Liquid syntax. If you havenā€™t, you may be better off hiring a professional to assist you.

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The thing is Liquid is not that difficult, but there is a lot of guessing because of lack of documentation, right?

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Thereā€™s a lot of documentation of Liquid. There main problem is that is not fully implemented in Manager and that we donā€™t have documents about how is implemented in Manager

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Yup, that is what I meant: no documentation about managerā€™s implementation :slight_smile:

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I still have not been able to find a solution. Hope to get someone here to help

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{{ 'today' | date: 'yyyy' }}

This is what we use for a Date Printed tag on our invoices. Give that a shot and report back if it works for you.

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In that case, keeping @VISA-MC comment in mind, it might be something like this:

{% for field in fields %}
    {% if field.label == "Invoice date" %}
        {{ fields.text | date: 'yyyy' }}
    {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

Cc: @kofitalent

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Thanks @VISA-MC. It worked.

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@ShaneAU @VISA-MC solution worked but will go ahead and test yours too. Anyway how different is yours from @ShaneAU solution?

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Mine pulls the current date, @ShaneAU ā€˜s solution utilized the invoice date. [quote=ā€œkofitalent, post:1, topic:20356ā€]
I created a custom invoice with a footer which has a date (year) that is supposed to automatically change yearly.
[/quote]

I may have misunderstood this. Shaneā€™s solution will keep previous invoices displaying that year where mine would change that:
Example you raise an invoice in 2017 but look at it now, my code will display 2019 in that footer, whereas shaneā€™s Code will display 2017 in that footer.

Either way glad you got it working one way or another.

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@VISA-MC. Ok ok I now get it. Thanks for the explanation.

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I couldnā€™t get this to work. The result came out blank

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Which option do you want? The year of the invoice or the current year?

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The year of the invoice. The current year worked alright but the year of the invoice is not working

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Which language are you using? Probably it doesnā€™t find ā€œInvoice dateā€ string.

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English

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You must not have copied it exactly. Here is the exact code from my test business:

        {% for field in fields %}
        {% if field.label == 'Invoice date' %}
            {{ field.text  | date: 'yyyy' }}
        {% endif %}
        {% endfor %}

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and changed date for proof:

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