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Auto populate Date and Time field

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2010-02-04 09:20:50
Maday
Registered: Feb 3 2010
Posts: 8
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I am new to live cycle and having a bit of trouble with a form i have to create for work. Getting the date and time field to auto populate and combined as one in the following format MM/DD/YYYY - HH:MM (24 hour)and be editable if the user needs to. I have very little knowledge in html, xml, and js so if anyone can help me with the code and where to put the code would be great.

Thank you

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2010-02-04 11:13:58
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pforms
Registered: Nov 17 2009
Posts: 87
----- form1.#subform[0].DateTimeField1::initialize - (FormCalc, client) ----------------------------

TimeFmt()

----- form1.#subform[0].DateTimeField1::ready:layout - (FormCalc, client) --------------------------

$.rawValue = Concat(Num2Date(Date(), "MM-DD-YYYY"), " ", Num2Time(Time(), "HH:MM:SS"))



Set value tab to Calculated - User can override
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2010-02-04 13:28:57
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Maday
Registered: Feb 3 2010
Posts: 8
When entering in the script i keep getting syntax failed near token.

Thank you
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2010-02-04 14:18:33
#3
pforms
Registered: Nov 17 2009
Posts: 87
Make sure it's set to FormCalc
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2010-02-04 14:33:06
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
You need to format the date and time individually and then concatenate the result with the separator. You can do all of this with just the calculation.

// Current Date  in "MM/DD/YYYY" format .var cDate = Num2Date(Date(), "MM/DD/YYYY")// Current Time in "HH:MM" format.var cTime = Num2Time(Time(), "HH:MM")// Create final formatted string.$.rawValue = Concat(cDate, " - ", cTime)

George Kaiser

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2010-02-04 14:59:58
#5
Maday
Registered: Feb 3 2010
Posts: 8
Thank you for all your help Pforms and gkaiseril.
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