Print Date and Time

[Former Community Member]

The server with the PDF samples is down, so I was wondering if anyone out there can advise me on resolving a problem. When the end user prints the form to hardcopy, I'd like the system date and time (from the system clock) printed in the footer of the form - similarly as handled in MS Word.

In LiveCycle Designer 7.1, there is a custom field named [Current Date] which is half of my needs, but I can't figure out how to do Current Time. Any ideas?

[Former Community Member]

You could place a text field on the form, remove its caption using the Layout palette (select
None in the Position property at the bottom) and, in its PrePrint event, set the following JavaScript:

var oNow = new Date();

this.rawValue = (oNow.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + oNow.getDate() + "/" + oNow.getFullYear() +

 " @ " + oNow.getHours() + ":" + oNow.getMinutes() + ":" + oNow.getSeconds();

This will display the current date and time in "MM/DD/YYYY @ HH:MM:SS" format in the field at the time the user prints the form.



Stefan

Adobe Systems

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Stu,



I liked Stefan's solution that I added another text field over the date field, whose (FormCalc) calculation looked like this:



if (PrintDate == null)

then $ = ""

else $ = "Printed at:"

endif



This meant that the "Printed at" text only appeared when the date was printed on the output and not on the screen.



I realise that this is probably not particularly pretty and that it may be possible to incorporate the "Printed at" in Stefan's Javascript or by having it as a PrePrint event rather than a calculated event.



Have fun!!!



Niall

[Former Community Member]

An even shorter syntax that works in Formcalc for a textfield is:



P1.Printed_on=concat("Printed on: ", Num2Date(date(), "MM/DD/YYYY "), Num2Time(time(), "hh:MM A"))