Date Field Values
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Last Post: March 25, 2010 (RSS)
By gkornbluth - March 19, 2010
Hi All,
I’ve got a couple of questions regarding date fields.
1) Is there a way to not require the time values to be filled in for a date field where “user specifies time” is checked? I have a situation where sometimes the time is necessary but sometimes it’s not, and at present, if a date field is filled in, the time value is not optional.
2) Is there a way to make the value for the “year” in a date field default to the current year. That way there would be one less pull down menu value that always needs be filled in?
Thanks as always,
Jerry Kornbluth
I’ve got a couple of questions regarding date fields.
1) Is there a way to not require the time values to be filled in for a date field where “user specifies time” is checked? I have a situation where sometimes the time is necessary but sometimes it’s not, and at present, if a date field is filled in, the time value is not optional.
2) Is there a way to make the value for the “year” in a date field default to the current year. That way there would be one less pull down menu value that always needs be filled in?
Thanks as always,
Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] Date Field Values
By Chris - March 19, 2010
Hi Jerry,
There's currently no way to make the time components of a date field optional if the date field is "user specifies time". I wonder if you could get away with defaulting to 12:00:00 AM or some such "meaningless" time?
You can accomplish quite a lot of interesting date/time defaults by using the Default Value = "Specify custom date" option. Try this:
An alternative might be to uncheck "user specifies time" and use a separate "text" field for the time.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.
There's currently no way to make the time components of a date field optional if the date field is "user specifies time". I wonder if you could get away with defaulting to 12:00:00 AM or some such "meaningless" time?
You can accomplish quite a lot of interesting date/time defaults by using the Default Value = "Specify custom date" option. Try this:
now 00:00:00An alternative might be to uncheck "user specifies time" and use a separate "text" field for the time.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.
All the best,
Chris
Chris
Re: [chris] Date Field Values
By gkornbluth - March 20, 2010
Thanks Chris,
I'll give it a try
They would be nice options though.
Jerry
I'll give it a try
They would be nice options though.
Jerry
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Re: [gkornbluth] Date Field Values
By InHouse - March 25, 2010
I'm with Jerry on this one. The date/time field could be dressed up a bit with some options.
I've run into this issue in a few shapes over time. Would love to be able to mask the date field in the Admin area, or feed data into that field from a public form without requiring extra handlers for the time or just the seconds.
J.
I've run into this issue in a few shapes over time. Would love to be able to mask the date field in the Admin area, or feed data into that field from a public form without requiring extra handlers for the time or just the seconds.
J.