Re: Todays date in a field?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 18:30 -0200, Arq. Maximiliano Meilán wrote:
> try in calculated field:
>
> import time;
> return time.strftime( "%Y-%m-%d" );
>
> for today, works for me.

That's not ideal. It could be recalculated at any time. You could do
this in a button's script, though it would be more complicated because
there's not yet a nice python API for setting field values:
http://library.gnome.org/users/glom/unstable/sec-calculated-fields.html.en#using-the-full-pygda-api

We should probably just add a "today's date" button to the "..." date
selection button. It probably defaults to today's date anyway.
 
I have been working on a branch to add date/time created/modified fields
to all Glom tables by default, but it became complicated so it's not
finished. I will need it anyway to help with a replication feature that
I need.

However, Andre, Glom shouldn't crash. Please file a bug, ideally with
a .glom file attached.


> El jue, 03-12-2009 a las 09:11 +1300, Andrew Ruthven escribió:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Another little niggle I'm working on.  I've added a "notes"t table and
> > want it to have a date "created" field, which defaults to today.  I've
> > tried setting "calculate value" on the field, and setting it to:
> >
> > import datetime
> >
> > return datetime.date.today()
> >
> > But when I hit the "test" button, glom crashes.  Is this something that
> > people do?
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
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