Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

bhargavip0001 — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:11:53 GMT

Hi Arjun, did you find solution for this issue ? facing the same issue here.

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

arjunv — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 07:16:18 GMT

Sure.Enabled Languages are
1. English (en) [en_US]
2. English (en) [en_GB].
Primary Language is English (en) [en_GB]

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

Sally Mason — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 07:12:14 GMT

Thanks for the update. Can you confirm in/designer under System > Internationalization what language settings are in effect as well for the user testing the code?

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

arjunv — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 06:16:27 GMT

Thanks. we have updated to the latest hotfix and find that it still exists.

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

Sally Mason — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:19:08 GMT

Thank you, I will follow up with testing on that build. I notice though, you are a couple of hotfixes behind too, its always best to keep update, sometimes even the issue, if it does exist, may already be resolved.

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

arjunv — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 06:59:53 GMT

Please find the attached build.info

build.info

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

arjunv — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:32:19 GMT

Yes I'm able to reproduce this on a 7.11 as well as on cloud. I will share the build.info

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

Sally Mason — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 07:46:40 GMT

I have tested on 16.2, 16.3 - which version, including build.info are you able to reproduce this so we can investigate further?

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

rodgraham — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:08:45 GMT

@Sally what version are you using I can reproduce @arjunv's issue - the variables are set correctly but the value displayed in the date time field is the previous value. Pick a date say today, then remove the time, enter a new date say tomorrow. The variables show tomorrow but the value displayed is today

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

Ravi — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:58:48 GMT

I guess it's the default behavior of datetime field

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

Sally Mason — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 08:37:19 GMT

Hmm.. using the code supplied, I cannot reproduce the as described: I select a date, the date in text changes to the selected, I choose a new date, the new date is saved, the hours stay the same.. as expected?

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

arjunv — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 07:11:54 GMT

PFA

DateTime.txt

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

Sally Mason — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 06:56:01 GMT

Please attach a copy of the current SAIL code for review?

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

arjunv — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 06:47:56 GMT

Thanks Sally, the issue with "Could not cast from Time to Date and Time with Timezone." is fixed in the date field by setting hours with timezone. However once the date time field appears with a default value and If I remove either date or time, the date field has to appear with empty date. When I choose another date, the date and time field appears with date entered the previous time.

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

Sally Mason — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 06:29:50 GMT

Also, when using GMT, you should specify the zone if you are not GMT 0. Also note the format Appian expects for the time: am/pm, not 24:00hr time.

Eg for the 7th of December at 1pm Eastern Standard Time (GMT-05:00) would be:
gmt(todatetime("12/07/2016 1:00 pm"), "EST")

RE: Set value to a date time variable on saving a date field

Sally Mason — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 06:15:42 GMT

It is caused by adding the hours - in the first instance, you are selecting a date from a date field which has no time component. In the second part where you are saving this value, it cannot be cast and throws the error:
"Could not cast from Time to Date and Time with Timezone."

For this to work, the first date should also be datetime, not just time, but with the hours set to 00:00 and include the timezone too.