Display and Format Field Data with the Get-data Macro

The get-data macro displays stored field data and provides for formatting. When data is inside a table-data or repeating-data macro, the get-data macro can retrieve it, which the Reporting plugin macro, reporting-info, is not able to do. (The Reporting plugin is not installed on this site).

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Get-data Macro

The general form is:

{get-data:name=[Field Name]|format=[date or number format]}Default value{get-data}

In this example, there is no data to get.

{get-data:name=Group Name.Field Name|format=#,##0.00}Default value{get-data}

Default value

In this example, there is a date to get.

{date-data:YearMonthDay|format=yyyy-MMM-dd}today{date-data}

{get-data:name=YearMonthDay|format=yyyy-MMM-dd}{get-data}

2011-Apr-05

2011-Apr-05

Get-data Macro Used with Repeating-data Macro

An example follows. In the edit view, the graphical plus sign was clicked twice to repeat the data.

{repeating-data:MonthDayYear}
{date-data:YearMonthDay|format=yyyy-MMM-dd}today{date-data}
{repeating-data}

{get-data:name=YearMonthDay|format=yyyy-MMM-dd}{get-data}

2011-Apr-05