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Creating a duration upon save

  • April 3, 2017
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I need to capture the duration when a form is initially saved. What I want to do is date the form created and populate via function into a TimeofDay field which is working. However, the duration which is a function field does not get executed. Is there a way to accomplish this? It appears that dynamic form rules don't support functions
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      • MCFNeil
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      • April 3, 2017
      The duration from "Date Created" will not work, until the record has been saved.  (Assuming your formula is correct)

      YOu can however use an IF statement and combine it with the function "Now()" to visually display the duration, until the record is saved and [Date Created] has a value.

      If would be something like;

      If(IsNull([Record ID#]), [Start Date / Time Field] - Now(), [Start Date / Time Field] - [Date Created])

      If you have more details I can give a more accurate formula, as I'm assuming you are going to have some field type conversions mixed in there somewhere.
      • DavidBerndt
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      • April 3, 2017
      Ok - this makes sense. However, when I try to use Record ID in a formula it says it is an unknown field. Probably as it is a system field. How can I either make it visible or is there a different field that I could use?
      You need the # sign too

      [Record ID#]

      Unless you have renamed that field. The field list will tell you your available fields.
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