How to Assign: Now.toString = "01/05/2023"

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i want to make UiPath recognize Now.toString as my own hard coded date, like
Assign: Now.toString = “01/05/2023”

how to achieve this?

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@wija
please follow
Now.ToString(“dd/MM/yyyy”)

if you want to go back one month then
DateTime.Now.AddMonths(-1).ToString(“dd/MM/yyyy”)

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no, not like that, i already understand that

what i want is:
Screenshot 2023-06-14 165955

so whenever i call the code “Now.toString” in another flow, the UiPath not going to get true current date, but get my own hard coded date instead.

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@wija you are writting wrong side of assign activity

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i want
whenever i call the code “Now.toString” in another flow, the UiPath not going to get true current date, but get my own hard coded date instead.

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@wija
Write right side of the assign activity and pass currently to Argument if you are using

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if right side of assign is Now.toString(“dd/MM/yyyy”) then what is the left side of the assign? is the “01/05/2023” ?

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@wija left side will be string variable where you will store value
like this
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hi @wija

It should be some variablename of string type.
For eg:

currDate=Now.toString(“dd/MM/yyyy”)

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sounds like

myDate = CDate(“01/05/2023”) - so my date will be the 5th Jan 2023

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almost there, but i don’t want to manipulate variable myDate, what i want to manipulate is the code “Now.toString” it self

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@wija
If you want to get previous month first day from now.tostring then
assign activity

→ Date1= DateTime(Date_Now.Year,Date_Now.Month,1).AddMonths(-1)

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@wija I got your point you want to get previous month date First. Right?

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no what i want is to manipulate “Now.toString” it self to be ANY hard coded date.

because i have so many flow that already using Now.toString not variable.
so whenever i call the code “Now.toString” the UiPath not getting true current date, but my own hard code date.

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we recommend to recheck the code basics

Now is retrurning the current date
CDate is converting a string into a date

Using the Now for getting a date is not made for a usage to set Now to another date. If you feel that your question is not right understood then

  • recheck the essential programing concepts
  • then reformulate your case and elaborate more on what is to achieve
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@wija ok.
the simply make a variable
then use assign activity and store like this
Date1=“01/05/2023”
and use this variable where Now.Tostring present

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so what i want is not achievable.

and i have to revise all of my “Now.toString” to be using a variable first :frowning:

@ppr

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@wija definately because “Now.ToString” command not a variable. That’s why you need to change everywhere where it is present

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we adressed with

when you need a variable representing a particular date which is not the day of today then we would recommend to use one of the different string to datetime conversion methods for getting it

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the thing is the project requirement is to get current date, so actually i don’t have revise any of my flow.
but my client not giving me any latest data for me to test it. i only have old data, so i have to roll back my “Now.toString”, but like what i stated in this posting, it is not achievable until i’m declare my “Now.toString” into a variable at a begining of my flow, then use the variable for the rest of my flow.