CRM 2013 – Workflow to set the current date and time

This question has popped up in the forums now and again so I thought I would write a blog post on it.

The solution on how to do this is simple, once you know where to look and how it works.  I can understand why some people struggle to find the answer to the question of setting a date field to the current date and time because you don’t see it mentioned very often and it isn’t obvious.

To set the a Date Time value in CRM to a when the workflow was run you can use the dynamic value

Process

Execution Time

This basically does what is says on the tin and sets a Date time value to Execution time of the workflow.

Open up your workflow and choose the Update, select Account entity

To set a field

Select the field and in the example above, I clicked into…