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**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [July 21, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246 "2025-07-21T14:25:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:**  [@Eva\_Folch](https://community.fibery.io/u/Eva_Folch)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246/1 "2025-07-21T14:25:40Z")
Provably, it will be a silly question, but I don’t find the solution.
I’m trying to make a template to create a quote, but I’m stuck on the quote date. Can I have a formula inside the HTML that gets the date from today?
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**Author:**  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246/2 "2025-07-21T14:42:04Z")
You can use javascript to get the current datetime, e.g.
`<%= new Date() %>`
Of course, you might want a nicer format, e.g.
`<%= new Date().toLocaleDateString("en-US") %>`
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**Author:**  [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246/3 "2025-07-21T17:37:55Z")
If you have a “Quote” DB, you probably want to create and fill a “Date Generated” field.
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**Author:**  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246/4 "2025-07-21T17:40:32Z")
Indeed, you might be better off using `{{Creation Date}}` or similar
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**Author:**  [@Eva\_Folch](https://community.fibery.io/u/Eva_Folch)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246/5 "2025-07-21T17:46:41Z")
Yes, I thought about that, but that will never be the date that I created the PDF, but the date that I created a row-entity. Right?
This works amazingly:
\<%= new Date().toLocaleDateString(“en-US”) %\>
But could I make it to format with dots, something like: 31.01.2025
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**Author:**  [@Eva\_Folch](https://community.fibery.io/u/Eva_Folch)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246/6 "2025-07-21T17:54:17Z")
> [@Chr1sG](#):
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> toLocaleDateString(“en-US”)
edited:
this works for me:
\<%= new Date().toLocaleDateString(“fr-CH”) %\>
Thanks! I’m discovering a new world with the PDF function in Fibery. It’s one of the reasons why I’m trying to switch from Coda.
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**Author:**  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246/7 "2025-07-21T17:57:37Z")
> [@Eva\_Folch](#):
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> But could I make it to format with dots, something like: 31.01.2025
You can pick a locale setting to get you what you want, e.g.
`<%= new Date().toLocaleDateString(“de-DE”) %>`
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**Author:**  [@Eva\_Folch](https://community.fibery.io/u/Eva_Folch)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246/8 "2025-07-21T17:59:11Z")
By the way, is there a way to make a select column to text? This is about the currency field, that is not recognized.
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**Author:**  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246/9 "2025-07-21T18:05:10Z")
`{{SelectField.Name}}`
unless you meant a number field formatted as currency?
> [@Eva\_Folch](#):
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> This is about the currency field, that is not recognized.
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**Author:**  [@Eva\_Folch](https://community.fibery.io/u/Eva_Folch)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/html-pdf-template/9246/10 "2025-07-21T18:26:42Z")
> [@Chr1sG](#):
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> `{{SelectField.Name}}`
Yes! That’s it. Of course… I forgot I always have to put name to make like text, right. It coda, it was not like this. THANKS!