Question: is there a way to create segment criteria that looks at an sprop that contains date and have it be a segment based on today's date? | Community
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ToddSchauman
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July 21, 2016
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Question: is there a way to create segment criteria that looks at an sprop that contains date and have it be a segment based on today's date?

  • July 21, 2016
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We have an sprop that contains content publish date: YYYY-MM-DD format.

I'm trying to create a segment based on this sprop that looks at today's date.

What can I put in the Equals box to allow the segment to look at a rolling date in the value of the sprop?

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    Best answer by Hyder_Ziaee

    Todd & Jeremy,

    The prop and evar values are read in as Strings by AA. Hence it is impossible to create a segment treating the values as dates. Also, the format for dates keep changing (YYYY-MM-DD, DD/MM/YYY, MM/DD/YYYY, etc), so it is hard to convert the strings to dates.

    For the questions regarding capturing Days of week, hour of day, etc, you may want to have a look at getTimeParting plugin.

    There are also several time dimensions now available, which can be used to create a segment (not the prop value)

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    Jeremy_Brugger
    Level 2
    July 21, 2016

    I'd like to see an answer to this as well (date functions for dates captured in props or evars). 

    The only remotely useful workaround I've found is to upload a classification of the evar (with classifications for day of week, week in year, month, etc).

    Hyder_Ziaee
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    Adobe Employee
    July 22, 2016

    Todd & Jeremy,

    The prop and evar values are read in as Strings by AA. Hence it is impossible to create a segment treating the values as dates. Also, the format for dates keep changing (YYYY-MM-DD, DD/MM/YYY, MM/DD/YYYY, etc), so it is hard to convert the strings to dates.

    For the questions regarding capturing Days of week, hour of day, etc, you may want to have a look at getTimeParting plugin.

    There are also several time dimensions now available, which can be used to create a segment (not the prop value)

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