Am using LiveCycle Designer ES ver. 8.2.1x and Acrobat Pro Extended ver. 9.1.2.
Am creating an Order form for e-mail submission (data returned as xml files). I want to include the current date and time among the fields/data returned. I therefore want the date field to be protected from the user/submitter. Would prefer that it be visible, but it's not essential.
Call me a moron, but for some reason I cannot get my date fields to format correctly, whether I (1) drag/drop a "date/time" field/control onto the form from the Standard object library and set its value to date() or time(), or (2) a "current date" field/control from the Custom object library. In either event, both controls seem unaffected by whatever format I set in Object | Field | Patterns.
If I set either field to Object | Value | Runtime Property | Current Date/Time, it will only display in "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format," regardless of what format I apply.
The options appear available to format these fields/controls, but whatever it takes to get this done seems WAY too counter-intuitive or difficult. What am I missing?
