How to display System Date in Spotfire?

How to display System Date in Spotfire?

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Spotfire Analyst 10.1 and higher

Description

If one needs to display the current date on the report, regardless of when the report is opened please refer to the Resolution section.

Issue/Introduction

How to display System Date in Spotfire?

Resolution

To display the current date with no timestamp you need to use the new function "Today()", which is an in-memory data engine function.It is supported in both Spotfire Analyst and Business Author and can be used in both calculated columns and custom expressions.TODAY function takes no parameters, but requires that you use empty parentheses ().

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Note: You can use function "DateTimeNow()" which will return the current date and time on the local computer.This function can be used in all supported versions of Spotfire.