By using Apptivo’s Mater Layout, you can customize the sections and attributes of your Apps as per your business preferences. In the case of a Date Field, you can change the date in two ways static and dynamic. By using static, you can set a particular date. In order to get today’s date, you have to choose the dynamic. Let’s follow the steps to configure today’s date.
Steps to Configure Today’s date:
- Log in and access the Estimates App from the universal navigation menu bar.
- Click on the More(...) icon and select Settings.
- On the Settings page, Go to Customize app → Master Layout.
- Drag and drop the “Date” attribute from the attributes section which is under the Palette tab.
- Click on the added Date attribute, you will be redirected to the Inspector tab.
- You can change the name of the attribute in the Custom Section.
- Here, enter the attribute name as the Current date.
- Now, enable the Default Value under the Default Behaviour section.
- You can view the Static and Dynamic in the Type dropdown.
- If you select Static type, you can set the particular date in the Date Value.
- If you want to view today’s date on the overview page, select Dynamic type so that you can set today’s date.
- Click on the Custom Date button.
- On the Function Editor pop-up window, select Today so that the system date will get updated.
- Click on the Create button.
- Click on the Save button to save the changes.
- On the Estimate creation page, you can view the changes. You can view today’s date in the Current date attribute generated automatically.
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