Time field needs default value for NOW
William Porter
A date field permits me to set "Today" as the default value. But a time field does not allow me to specify that I want the default to be "Now". It should. Well, don't mean to be pushy. It would be nice if it did.
The workaround is to create as FORMULA field that extracts the time from a First Created field, with a formula like this:
CONCAT( HOUR([First Created]), ":", LEFT(CONCAT("0", MINUTE([First Created])),2))
And that works. But would be nice if I could ask it to put current time in there. Especially now that I've figured out how to tell SmartSuite what time zone I live and work in. 😉
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Kevin Wade
With all the incredible functionality that smartsuite offers, I"m surprised this hasn't been implemented yet after 2 years. Nearly all of the software's I've tried offer a way to use current day and time as an option throughout the system.
The {now} function is only available in formulas, and I would love to see it offered as part of the default options in date fields as well as automations.
Brian Dollen
Merged in a post:
Allow setting time value with automation
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YES Integrations
An automation can only set the value of the data part of the data field.
Sometimes the time needs to be recorded too, but there is no option for this.
Please add a "Now" option above the "Today" option in Date Actions.