ArcGIS Pro Layout: Dynamic Text display only date

JonathanDandois

Building a Map Series in Pro and trying to display a survey date field for the feature on each series page. this points to a datetime field, but I only want to show the date. Per the docs, https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/layouts/date-and-time-dynamic-text.htm, I should be able to just use format="short" to display only date, but this does not seem to work. Pro 3.1.3

Note that because this is a Map Series, this is inserted into the Layout using Insert > Dynamic Text > Map Series > Attribute.   Could the type="page" tag be conflicting with the format="short" tag? It doesn't seem like any formats are accepted.  Changing to property="date" has no impact.

Thoughts?

 

 

Aubri Otis

Hi!

You're right, because you are using the attribute to get the date it works a little differently. The date formatting tags only apply to date-specific dynamic text elements like Date Exported or Current Time. 

For attributes, the date format is read from the table itself. So you can edit the date format in the fields view and that will be reflected in your layout. The attribute dynamic text just displays what's in the table, it stays in sync with how the table is formatted.

If you don't want to change the formatting for the attribute table you can use Value dynamic text instead. Value dynamic text also reads values from an attribute table, but it can be used without a map series and applied to stand-alone tables. Value dynamic text supports Arcade expressions so you can write an arcade expression to display your date data differently on the page than it is shown in the table.