How to format dates in data driven pages fields

dougbrowning

Is there a way to format date fields in data driven page fields like you can do for dynamic text?  In dynamic text dates you can do things like format="short" but this does not work on data driven pages.  I have searched all over and found nothing.  Only option was to use an expression.

Thanks for any help.

I would like to do this

<dyn type="page" property="attribute" field="Date_" domainlookup="true"  format="short"/>

dougbrowning

Bummer.  For now I am doing a label expression and then using the expression tag in the data driven page field.  Like <dyn type="page" property="expression"/>

Expression was not easy to figure out

def FindLabel ([DATE_]):

    s = [DATE_]

    if s is None:

        return None

    return s.split(" ").pop(0)