Autorun Timestamp in report names

john

Hi All.

Is it possible to get the date in the report names when using autorun.

example: “2026-04-16_Result SummaryReport”

best regards John

Matti

If you mean the report file names, then you need to ask AI to write a python script that creates an Autorun xml with the current date and runs it.

viktorwikland

@john said in Autorun Timestamp in report names:

Is it possible to get the date in the report names when using autorun.

I have switched jobs since last time I did this and I cannot recall exactly how I did this…
But I started did something along the lines of;

I saved my file with a placeholder for date
<itoreport name=“FileName” file=“FilePath\C\Modell\Versions\currentDate_Solibri Autorun.xlsx” />

And then in my .bat that runs the .xml i had a line of code that launched a .ps1 that replaced all placeholder values with the current date
Example .ps1:
$date = Get-Date -Format “yyyy-MM-dd”

Get-ChildItem -Filter “currentDate” | ForEach-Object {
$newName = $.Name -replace “currentDate”, $date
Rename-Item -Path $.FullName -NewName $newName
}

Hope this helps somewhat

john

allright thanks for the help you guys

I’m not that firm in coding so I think I’d have to ask someone to make it work. looks like there is some different workaround methods we can use. I just found it strange that this was not a standard function

thanks again