ecm:year
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    Article summary

    The function ecm:year returns the year component of the referenced date. The value returned is an integer data type.

    Example

    The date of each recipient's high school graduation is stored as a group member attribute. The year part of this date is extracted for use in a message. The expression for inserting this information in a message is constructed as follows:

    <%${ecm:year(ecm:toDate(user.MemberAttribute['graduation_date'], ''))}%>

    Note that the function ecm:toDate is also used to ensure that the value stored in the member attribute is formatted as a date data type to match the type required for the parameter.

    Structure​

    ecm:year(date)

    Parameters​

    Parameter

    Description

    date

    Specifies the target date.


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