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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 19, 2024

How to change the date format of a field to any custom date format. The default date format is yyyy-MM-dd

The users might be working from different regions each with different timezones and they way a user would have the date time recorded in the source system is different.

This will make it flexible for the user to add a date to a field in their preferred format instead of default yyyy/MM/dd which could be confusing and time taking for the user to update

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Laurent Tillette de Clermont-Tonnerre
    Jun 27, 2025

    Can now train the agent to display date or time or anything in the format that fits the needs. Instructions can condition the format, for example based on a team or location that can be pull from a tool.


    Note the name and email of logged-in user will be know with next week release.