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Date/time button. Can the time update by the second when form is open?

2009-12-14 03:44:00

Abbica

Registered: Feb 4 2009

Posts: 38

Hi, I just need the time to appear by the second, so when a client is filling in the form, the time appears continuously updated as he is typing, it doesn't freeze on the time once you open the document, time keeps moving along. Can liveCycle designer do this or Acrobat pro 8?

2009-12-14 04:20:28

radzmar

Registered: Nov 3 2008

Posts: 1202

Hi,

create a date/time field, and add a script to it to show the time, the form was opened first.
The script will only calculate a new time, as long the field has no value, this means it will be calculated exactly once.

Form1.#subform[0].MyTime[0]::calculate - (FormCalc, client)if ($.rawValue == null) thennum2time(time())else$.rawValueendif

radzmar
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2009-12-14 06:51:08

gkaiseril

Registered: Feb 23 2006

Posts: 4308

Thom Parker has a series of tutorials about date and time calculations. The 3rd part explains how to use the internal timer of Acrobat to run a script at a fixed interval. This may also work in LiveCycle Designer using the JavaScript language.

George Kaiser