I have a calculated field that in SharePoint 2013 that is set to a date time format formatted to only display date. I have a date time field only to display date. How do I take the values in the calculated field and copy them to the date time field using the 2013 workflow?
You could save the calculated field to a backing text field column and then update the date column via the workflow. There isn't an out of the box way that I know of to connect the calculated field directly to a date column, although I wish there were!
I got the calculated field set up as you said. However, I already have date fields that need to be populated and that users will continue to populate manually. So I thought taking those calculated field values and moving them over would achieve that.
I was getting error messages simply copying the calculated field values. Its crazy. It shouldn't be this hard. I should just be able to update these dates.
Can you share what your list and workflow look like? In your workflow you could bring in the calculated date as a variable setup as a date. You should then be able to set item or update item and set the field to the variable. Is that not working?
I changed this workflow when I couldn't get the date to work. I have it so it is pulling a text field from the source that has dates in it and putting it in a text field in the target. I figured then I could in SharePoint change the target text field manually to a date. But it kept throwing errors when I would try to update.
