Display Current Date field on form D365 F&O

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Hello Guys , I have a custom form and i have create a date field. i want this date field to show the current date and should not be editable by user. for prevent editing i made allow property as "NO" but how to display current date by default when user will enter the data in the form.

my side i set Auto declaration property "YES" and Date Value "Today's date" but still its not displaying any date. i believe this is simple task can be setup by changing property or we require coding for this ??.

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1.Date field on form

2.Date Field Properties

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Gunjan Bhattachayya 35,423 on at

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Hi Sachin,

In case you always want to show today's date in this field,. why are you creating a field in the table? You can create a display method to show today's date. But what is the purpose for this customization? Do you have to show today's date always or fill in today's date into this field while creating a new record?

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Hi Sachin,

If you just want to display the current time on the form, write a display method to act on your control.

Or you can refresh the update time in time，Please check this blog:

community.dynamics.com/.../ax-7-using-timer-to-perform-a-periodic-task

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Hello Gunjan ,

I am sorry i did not explain properly Please find my comments below related to this customization.

Requirement : When user will create record on this form , DateRequested field should display that current date ,this date will be fixed and store in database.

purpose : I want to track user when he raised this form record , so in future i will calculate how many days he took to complete the process. There is one more date date completed. which user will fill when the process will be complete.

I hope i mentioned clearly , please let me know if you need more clarity.

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Martin Dráb 237,965 Most Valuable Professional on at

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If you want to initialize the field when creating a record, use initValue() method on the table.

By the way, if you have a control bound to a table field, never try to change the value of the individual control. You should change the table buffer instead.

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Gunjan Bhattachayya 35,423 on at

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Hi Sachin,

In that case, you should initialize the value of this field in "initValue" method in the table. Override the initValue method and add this code -

this.DateRequested = systemDateGet();

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vinitgoyal2005 6,332 on at

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Hi,

I assume you want to populate this date with the current date when a new record is created in 'DRFProjectTable'. What you need to do is write code in initValue method of the table like below:

public void initValue() { super(); this.DateRequested = DateTimeUtil::getSystemDate(DateTimeUtil::getUserPreferredTimeZone()); }

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Hello Vinit ,

This is exactly what i want and its working fine. Thank you so much for the help.

also Thanking Gunjan, Martin and Blue for there suggestions and kindness.

Have a great day !!!

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