How to insert current date variable into a "customised certificate slide".

Oct 25, 2016

Hi there,

I have created a certificate looking slide at the end of my course. I have added in variables for the learners name, their score achieved, I am just missing the date variable to be populated automatically.

I have followed the guide on the link below however it has not worked when I have tested it in a clients LMS (SABA). https://vimeo.com/145579723

I was just wondering if anyone could offer any assistance on this matter?

30 Replies

8 months ago08/23/23 at 5:35 pm (UTC)

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Samm Schmidt

8 months ago08/23/23 at 5:46 pm (UTC)

I copied Joanne's code from above and created a trigger:

var m_names = new Array("January", "February", "March",
"April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September",
"October", "November", "December");
var today = new Date();
var dd = today.getDate();
var mm = today.getMonth();
var yyyy = today.getFullYear();
if(dd<10) { dd='0'+dd }
var date= m_names[mm]+' '+dd+', '+yyyy;
var player = GetPlayer();
player.SetVar("SystemDate",date);

and added the text variable SystemDate (I even tried it with a different variable and updated the code accordingly) I set up my trigger to execute the javascript when the timeline starts on this slide, I have a text box with %SystemDate% and I am not able to see the date print on the slide when in Review360. Is this a known bug or is there an issue with my above code? I know zero javascript so I am at a loss for what Is going wrong here.

8 months ago08/23/23 at 7:29 pm (UTC)

no - nothing special for Review 360

here is a working example (with modern Javascript)

player = GetPlayer();

var date = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-us', { 
  year:  "numeric", 
  month: "long",
  day:   "numeric"
}).format();

player.SetVar("SystemDate", date);

result:

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/6166e558-462b-4a16-a506-0ecb1d507221/review