Setting time portion of date time control

Steven,

In the form date/time control settings, you should be able to Store the ClientID in a javascript variable and use that variable to manipulate via your code rather than using the Element ID's.

Cheers,

Mark

Steve,

Another, less glamorous option would be to have the date fields on the form present as date only fields and add two separate fields for hour and time. you could have these set for a drop-down choice list with pre-populated values (I assume there would not be a huge call for individual minute granularity).

Once the form is submitted you could use a workflow Calculate Date control to combine the original Date and the the two hour/minutes field values.

However, you would first need to extract these hour/minute values out of the Formdata Item property xml and populate into variables (and convert to relevant numbers).

Like I said - less glamorous, but should work!

Regards,

Mark

Thanks so much Jeremy! Just what we were trying to do.

Hi Leif,

You'd need to round to the nearest 5 minutes, I documented this on a question I posted a while ago​. It's not perfect but for the most part it works ok for me. Hopefully it's of use to you.

Cheers,

Ben

Hi,

Maybe this code snippet is useful - I use it to set the date and time to "now":

// Client ID JavaScript variable name: varTimeStamp

NWF$(document).ready(function(){

    if ({Common:IsNewMode}) {

        var fldTimeStamp = NWF$("#" + varTimeStamp);

        var hourElement = fldTimeStamp.parent().find("select[id*='DateHours']");

        var minuteElement = fldTimeStamp.parent().find("select[id*='DateMinutes']");

        var date = new Date();

        var hours = date.getHours();

        // AMPM format?

        var firstOption = hourElement[0].options[0].innerHTML;

        if (firstOption == "12 AM") {

            var suffix = (hours < 12) ? 'AM' : 'PM';

            hours = (hours % 12 || 12) + " "+ suffix;

        }

        var minutes = date.getMinutes();

        var roundedMinutes = 5*(Math.floor(Math.abs(minutes/5)));

        hours =  ("00" + hours).substr(-2,2);

        roundedMinutes = ("00" + roundedMinutes).substr(-2,2);

        hourElement.val(hours);

        minuteElement.val(roundedMinutes);

    }

});

Regards

Leif