Hi All, I’m trying to use a flow variable with a date as default value for the date&time widget. Error: can’t parse date.
Already tried to change the format to 2024-11-01T00:00. No success.
Any Idea for solution?
@Solarianer currently there is no Flow Variable Type Date/Time. You can use strings at certain places and also convert to and from Date Variables.
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I know, that there are no date formats in the variables, but I want to set the date in the widget to a date coming from a string variable. This doesn’t work. Always the same error.
I tried different format, only date, date with time - alsways same failure.
Ah yes… it took me a long time to figure this one out…
You actually need to pass in a string that contains date, time and time zone!
I figured this out by creating a flow variable for the output the widget creates by filling in the text field in flow variables tab:
For test purposes I created two string variables, one with and one without timezone:
When using the one w/o timezone I get the same error as you:
When passing in the variable with timezone it works:
Here is a demo:
flowvartodtwidget.knwf (72.7 KB)
So you pretty much have to add a timezone via string manipulation to make it work!
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OK that is an interesting insight … 
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