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Pradeep_VarmaPe
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August 27, 2025
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How to capture a custom evar with date field (Adobe analytics)

  • August 27, 2025
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I want to capture last modified date of an asset in evar, how can i capture it and generate reports like fetch all assets where the last modified is greater than a year.

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Jennifer_Dungan
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Jennifer_DunganCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
August 27, 2025

Hi @pradeep_varmape,

 

You likely aren't going to like the answer to this one... assuming you are using AA and not CJA.

 

Starting with AA... all dimensions are stored as text. This means that even if you send a date format, it will not be parsed as a date, and you cannot use greater than or less than logic (at least not in AA itself... you can take it outside of Adobe, and cast the value as a date if you are using a proper date format standard, like Report Builder and Excel)

 

However, you can send dates as simplified formats such as "year|month|day" (i.e. 2025|08|27) and use classifications to split the values to extract the year (2025), the month (08) and the day (27), and combinations of the above to then use multi-select drop downs or segments that build out the definition of what dates to include.

 

See my rockstar tip from the 2025 Summit:

https://business.adobe.com/summit/2025/sessions/2025-adobe-analytics-rockstars-top-tips-and-tricks-s101.html

Timestamp 10:35-15:20

 

 

If you are using CJA, I believe you can actually set your dimensions to be "date format" so in theory you should be able do this.. I don't have CJA myself, but I have been told this is possible.

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