Date Field not showing on my Instance_Name

[Babcock_Kristen_L]

Hi!  I'm attempting to have my instance_name include my site  name and the date the survey was collected.  This is what I have in my instance_field:

concat(${WorkDate}," ", ${SiteName})

The site name always comes through fine, but the date is just this long list of numbers.

Maybe the date field is too long? it shows up as the day, month, day of month and year. I don't really need day, but I don't know how to change it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[DougBrowning]

Maybe becuase its a date.  Have you tried putting string() around the date field?

[MobiusSnake]

Use something like this:

format-date(${my_date},'%b-%d/%H:%M')