How to get order date in receipt email template

[chadhakavita]

Hi Perry,

Could you please assist me regarding how I can get the order date in receipt email template? And from where I can change the $instructions variable value? And how I can create a new cancellation email template?

Regards,

[perrytew]

For the order date, you want $order.getCreationDate() Here's the $order object: https://ultracart.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ucdoc/pages/1377777/Order+SFO

The $instructions variable is created depending on the payment method used. The various texts are found in your StoreFront under the StoreFront -> Languages tab. Edit the language you are wanting to change, and do a search for "notification". You'll find numerous instructions within. Here's a sample of the notifications for the English language (ENG).

  "notification": {
    "receipt": {
      "creditcardappearas": "The bill will appear on your credit card as: {0}",
      "creditcardinstructions": "Please keep a printed copy of this order for your records.",
      "customerserviceemailfield": "Email",
      "customerserviceheader": "Customer Service",
      "customerservicephonefield": "Phone",
      "mailcheckinstructions": "Please print this order and mail along with your check to:",
      "moneyorderinstructions": "Please print this order and mail along with your money order to:",
      "returnpolicyheader": "Return Policy",
      "sendwiretransferto": "Please submit your wire transfer to",
      "wiretransferaccountnumberlabel": "Account Number",
      "wiretransferintermediateroutingnumberlabel": "Intermediary Routing Number",
      "wiretransferroutingnumberlabel": "Routing Number"
    }

As for a cancellation email template, are you referring to an auto order cancel email? All email templates are found within the StoreFront -> Emails tab.

Regards, Perry

[chadhakavita]

Perry, How I can fetch the only date from $order.getCreationDate(). Right, now I'm getting time as well.

[perrytew]

$order.getCreationDateFormatted()

returns back a string. And the velocity template language is a java engine. So you could use the substring method of java.lang.String to extract the date portion.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#substring(int,%20int)

I think it would look something like this:

$order.getCreationDateFormatted().substring(0,11)

You could trial and error until you get the correct upper limit on substring. It's going to be 10 or 11 most likely. All date formatted fields are in this format:

dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss

[chadhakavita]

Thanks.