Text widget - dynamic text - how to format date to dd/mm/yy

elpinguino — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:06:22 GMT

Hi ExBers,

It's been a while since I've been back using ExB, and I see there's a few improvements that have been made.

I have a date field in a hosted table that I have connected up to a text widget. The date is outputting as dd/m/yy so for 24 May 2026 it outputs as 24/5/26. I want it to output as dd/mm/yy though ie 24/05/26. This should be the case for any single digit month to have a 0 in front of it.

I thought it would be as simple as text($feature.fieldname,'dd/mm/yy'), but when I go into Arcade script there's a whole bunch of other stuff going on that I'm not familiar with. Is anyone able to provide some guidance? It doesn't seem to like $feature or $datasource.

This is the default Arcade script.

// Documentation: https://arcg.is/18ejKn3

function getFilteredFeatureSet(ds) {

var result = ds.layer;

var queryParams = ds.queryParams;

if (!IsEmpty(queryParams.where)) {

result = Filter(result, queryParams.where);

}

if (!IsEmpty(queryParams.geometry)) {

result = Intersects(result, queryParams.geometry);

}

return result;

}

// The filteredFeatureSet1 has already been filtered using spatial filters and attribute filters.

// var filteredFeatureSet1 = getFilteredFeatureSet($dataSources["dataSource_2-0"]);

// selectedFeatures1 is the selection view of data source.

// var selectedFeatures1 = $dataSources["dataSource_2-0"].selectedFeatures;

// NOTE: When using selectedFeatures, cases with no selected features must be handled manually.

return {

value: '',

text: {

// size: 14,

// color: 'rgb(0, 0, 255)',

// bold: true,

// italic: false,

// underline: false,

// strike: false

};

Re: Text widget - dynamic text - how to format date to dd/mm/yy

ShengdiZhang — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:02:57 GMT

Hi @elpinguino ,

If the text widget is not in a list, it can only use the profile $dataSources, similar to $layer. However, if you select a text widget inside a list, you can use $feature.

Thanks,

Shengdi

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