can any one help i am using filemaker to create a html page to email which is working great

but for one thing the date on the page appears in a raw numeric form

i have a template called email text which is a calulation returning text it contains lots of html code and in various place filemaker fields to put different text on the html page according to what user it is

but the date field does not appear

the field is a calc outputting a date the calc is just status current date

which displays fine in filemaker but not in the email

does anyone know why

I think it may be because you have to use DateToText(StatusCurrentDate). However, I would presume that if "DateToText(StatusCurrentDate)" was within the HTML, it would show up just like that.

Ken

Hi,

A couple of thoughts...

You could try using the [FMP-CurrentDate] tag instead of the field or... if you are sure your field is really a date field... you could try using [FMP-Field: <the date field name>, format] which should display the field contents as they appear on the Filemaker layout.

HTH