Looking for a way to create cohort based on user creation time about moodle-local_cohortauto HOT 6 OPEN

It uses mustache templating so this page is probably a good place to look for ideas - I wonder if userdate might work:
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Templates#.7B.7B.23_userdate_.7D.7D_.28Moodle_3.3_onwards.29

I don't think we've tried anything like this before so let us know if you figure it out!

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Well, I used this pattern in the Main Template section, but nothing happened:

{{#userdate}} {{ timecreated }}, %B %Y {{/userdate}}

so I then tried adding spaces:

{{ #userdate }} {{ timecreated }}, %B %Y {{ /userdate }}

Which resulted in a cohort:

 1605290540, %B %Y 

Obviously, the epoch time and string literals, so the helper syntax must be incorrect.

Just as a look/see (as per the other helper documentation) I also tried:

{{# userdate }} {{ timecreated }}, %B %Y {{/ userdate }}

But again, nothing.

I looked at the "Replace array" but it simply looks to use a static text pattern.

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Does it look as if the plugin ignores helpers?

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sounds like it - you might need to look to see how Moodle adds those helpers to the templates and see if you can hack that into the way the plugin manages templates.

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I suspect this is beyond what I would be able to achieve :(.

Just for a giggle, I might look at the code, but this is not really my area.

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Yep - not giggling... Unfortunately, I don't really know where to start.

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