Filename with dynamic date in node red

[shrickus]

FYI, here is another thread with a solution that requires no programming...

Msg.filename logging data

In the spirit of "there's always another way to do it", I like to use the node-red-contrib-moment node whenever I need to format time and date strings. Here is an example of how to append the current timestamp formatted as YYYYMMDD to a static filename: [image] Just put whatever static strings you want inside [...] square brackets, set the input to be the current timestamp, and use any of moment's many formatting directives. In your case, you would also set the Output to msg. filename -- no …