NPrinting 17 - Task execution date tag gives no value

[Amit_B]

Hi guys,

As I wrote in my previous question, the company I work for has updated NPrinting to version 17 and i have some issues. 

Here's the second issue:
In version 16, I could add a tag to the email subject and then in the email itself I received the date when the task ran (%%Execution_Date%%). In version 17 I don't find such a tag, so I can't see the date in the subject.

So as in the previous question,
What am I doing wrong or missing, and how can I fix it?
Is there another way I can do it?

Thank you!

[Lech_Miszkiewicz · Accepted solution]

Hi @Amit_B 

as mentioned in my other answer - what you did wrong is you have not studied documentation.

There are certain rules regarding variables in NPrinting: 

• variable must be expanded in QlikView or Qlik Sense: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2023/Content/NPrinting/Troubleshooting/Variables-dont-expan...
  • that usually means that your variable needs to be either calculated in load script or if it is expression/formula it needs to start from "=" sign
• embedding variables in subject: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2023/Content/NPrinting/DistributionSchedulesAutomation/Dist...
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFdrqsbQlk 
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