Add year in flow

[VSN]

Hi All, I have one requirement to auto create project record when program (parent)was created.

for this process i go with flow designer part, i have created flow.

as a part of new record creation the project description will be combination of parent name (program name ) and start date field year.

example: - parent name is testingcomm and start is is 03/05/2028. then project description will be like " testingcomm 28". 

so my query is how can i get the 2 digit year details in flow?

[Mark Manders]

You need to script your Short Description something like this:

var currentDateTimeStr = gs.nowDateTime();
var glideDateTime = new GlideDateTime(currentDateTimeStr);
var fullYear = glideDateTime.getYearLocalTime();
var yearShort = fullYear.toString().substr(-2);
var desc = fd_data.+the rest of your data pill for the name;
var shortDesc = desc + ' ' + yearShort;
return shortDesc;

Just set a reminder in your calendar that you need to change this flow on December 31st in the year 9999. After that date it will return 3 characters instead of 2.

[dpac_nick]

If you have name and date field with correct values, you can access them using fd_data object in script part of Description in flow.

Then it just require some splits and splices to reach that particular suffix of year in that particular field. 

var name = fd_data.trigger.current.field_name.getDispalyValue();
var date_time = fd_data.trigger.current.date_field.getDisplayValue();
var date_split = date_time.split(' ');
var date = date_split[0].split('-');
var year_suffix = date[0].slice(2);
return name + ' ' + year_suffix;

[v_alphaguru]

@dpac_nick it is almost close to requirement, final result will be like " parent name - FY startdate name ";

example: Testing-FY24