I'm using a custom data source to print using an Advanced PDF template. Only the first way produces any output at all. I'm confused since I know I have had success with the second and last ways. Pretty sure all of these should produce some output.

is dateCreated a date/date-time or is it a string? the 2nd method

?string['d/MMM/yyyy']

doesn't seem to be a real freemarker bulit-in (string types have a string built-in, but not dates) however the last/5th method

?date("d/MMM/yyyy")

should work if

dateCreated

is actually a string (as per the string ?date built-in) *AND the

dateCreated

string is actually in the format "d/MMM/yyyy"

I just handled this script-side.