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How do you trigger event action off a date field?

  • September 11, 2025
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I’m looking to trigger an event action email in IFS Cloud when the system date equals the date entered in the date field. I have tried entering TRUNC(SYSDATE), TRUNC(CURRENT_DATE), and #TODAY#. 

I have been using the NEW:EXP_DATE field. I’m trying OLD:EXP_DATE to see if this triggers.

Does anybody know how to trigger an email when dates match?

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  • Sidekick (Partner)
  • September 12, 2025

Hi

In your custom event under the custom attributes section you create a new data type variable such as EXP_date_ and in the server method you can type

trunc(:NEW.EXP_DATE) 

In the event action conditions you can use the above EXP_DATE_ variable and match with trunc(sysdate) 

EXP_DATE_   = trunc(sysdate)

this way both date formats will match   . You can fill in the email and other details as needed


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  • Do Gooder (Customer)
  • September 19, 2025

Good morning,

The proposed solution did not work, but I solved this a different way. YOu need to create a custom attribute that will change based on sysdate. This is the trigger you use in the action.

I created DATE_MATCH and set the server method as: CASE WHEN &NEW:CF$_EST_INVOICE_DATE = TRUNC(SYSDATE) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END

Then I used DATE_MATCH = 1 to trigger my event action.