RTC Custom attribute With date and time

Kiran Nagara (107●4●18●23) | asked Mar 14 '13, 7:19 a.m.
edited Mar 14 '13, 7:45 a.m. by Ralph Schoon (62.0k●3●36●43)

Hi,

I want to achieve a custom attribute with both date and time, Is this possible?

Right now I see only date (calender) is available but not time (clock), can this be achieved. I have done it programatically to get both date and time on state change, But manually entering date and time in the same field i couldn't find it...

Regards,
-Kiran

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Pradeep Balachandran commented Mar 14 '13, 2:50 p.m.

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Kiran,

Given that presentation doesn't yet allow a user to enter data and time manually, go ahead with your approach of a text string field. In your particular use-case you can seed this field with the a value for date & time (via a script) which should suffice in 50% (or more) of use-cases and for the rest, let the user modify it explicitly.

Thanks,
Pradeep

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Ralph Schoon (62.0k●3●36●43) | answered Mar 14 '13, 7:44 a.m.
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Hi, as far as I am aware the time stamp attribute type always stores the date and time. You can use a JavaScript calculated value to get the full date and time information from a timestamp attribute. You can also try to use the string representation to create a time stamp for want and store that in a timestamp attribute.

https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/AttributeCustomization#API_for_Javascript

I have however noticed that the timestamp presentation does not allow to see the time, you could use a calculated string from that. I Just did that yesterday. The issue would be to enter the script in the right format if you wanted to create a timestamp from it. You would probably also add a validator in this case. See the Process Enactment Workshop Lab 5 for more examples.

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Kiran Nagara commented Mar 14 '13, 7:50 a.m.

Hi Ralph,

Wouldn't this be a good feature to have in RTC... Do you know if there is an enhancement request WI...

I'm looking to create a custom field for an event which has already occurred and want to fill in both the event date and time when it occurred (the event is past event).

Regards,
-Kiran

Ralph Schoon commented Mar 14 '13, 8:05 a.m. | edited Mar 14 '13, 8:05 a.m.

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Hi Kiran, I would agree it would be good to be able choose to enter a date with or without time and having a choice how to present it. One issue is that due dates are a date and then noon.

I just looked into the work items (you could do that too!) and others agree too. The work item is really pretty old and there is a newer RFE too. See https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=50718 and add your support.

Sola Otudeko commented Mar 15 '13, 6:09 a.m.

Hi. What I found is in a custom date field, whatever date you select, RTC hard-codes the time as 12 noon. (Just as well it does not display the time). What we've done is have 2 fields for user to select time (hr and min). The selected date is then recalculated with the user selected time. I've added my name to the rfe.
regards
Sola

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Sola Otudeko (45●1●14●16) | answered Mar 14 '13, 7:34 a.m.

I don't believe there is. I need same functionality. I ended up creating my own time fields (just string value drop downs for hrs and mins)...then adjust selected date to this time in my extension.
Regards
Sola

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Kiran Nagara commented Mar 14 '13, 7:39 a.m. | edited Mar 14 '13, 7:39 a.m.

Have you come across an enhancement request for this functionality on Jazz.net?

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