Convert Text to Datetime

Although flows can extract data from documents, the retrieved values are usually stored as text. If a text represents a date or time value, Robomotion enables users to convert it to a datetime variable and use this variable for further date and time calculations.

What Convert Text to Datetime can do

• Parse date (Robomotion.DateTime.Format) — inTime: 20220101, custom input layout 20060102, output RFC3339 → msg.text_as_date_time.
• Build text (Core.Programming.Function) → msg.dialog_text = "The text '20220101' has been converted to the following datetime variable: " + msg.text_as_date_time, then Core.Dialog.MessageBox titled Result (info).
• Parse time (Robomotion.DateTime.Format) — inTime: 23:45:00, custom input layout 15:04:05, output RFC3339 → msg.text_as_date_time, followed by the same build-text + Result dialog pattern.
• Parse datetime (Robomotion.DateTime.Format) — inTime: January 01, 2022 23:45:00, custom input layout January 02, 2006 15:04:05, output RFC3339 → msg.text_as_date_time, followed by the final Result dialog before Core.Flow.Stop.

Behind the scenes

• Robomotion.DateTime.Format uses Go-style reference-time layouts (2006, 01, 02, 15, 04, 05) rather than yyyy/MM/dd tokens — the literal sample values in the input layout are what define each field.
• msg.text_as_date_time is deliberately reused across all three conversions — each dialog shows the value produced by the most recent Parse step.