Formatted Date Strings can be inserted into the Commands, Notes or Notifications sections of a job using variable substitution. Variables are enclosed in double parentheses.
Using date strings as qualifiers in a Commands List
In this example a report requires two qualifiers, the date one week ago and today's date. The formatting OO-DD-YYYYY is used to produce a pattern of the month number, the date and the year separated by dashes.
runreport ((\sys\thisday)) ((\sys\oneweekago))
The resulting evaluated string would look like this (on May 7th):
runreport 5-7-2016 4-30-2016