VTiger 7.4 introduced some new email actions functions, one of them is substring. Using the substring function, now user can calculate birthday and send email in Vtiger 7.4 using workflow. Let’s take a look at how user can calculate a records birthday and send an automated email with birthday wishes to that client. In order to do so, first you have to create three more fields in addition to the default Birthday field 1- Date of birth: This fields shows the actual date of birth of the contact 2- Today – Month Date:  You have to create a text type field, that will show current month and todays date 3. Birthday – Month Date: You have to create a text type field, that will show the birthday month and date 4. Is birthday today: This is a text field, whose value will be either “Yes” or “No” depending if its