Time field with am / pm capitalized

[BillWFG]

I have a UX with a numeric textbox and have used this for the time field in my program. As my data entry people are putting in the time that a job was performed I need the am or pm to capitalize. When my data entry people leave the time field I would like the am or pm to become capitalized. The Alpha client side mask I am using now is 00:00 ll but as you know this will not change my am or pm to capitals and if I use the mask 00:00 LL then my people are forced to capitalize and that is also a problem.

I need it to happen automatically after they enter the time.

Help?

[Davidk]

Re: Time field with am / pm capitalized

This is a little bit tricky, in a sense, because from what you've written you've already tricked Alpha into letting you apply a Client-side mask to a numeric control. You don't get a "Mask" choice on a numeric control.

However, you probably set it as character, set the Client-side Mask to 00:00 ll and then changed it back to numeric. I'm guessing.

This, however, has absolutely nothing to do with your question. I'm assuming you want the Mask... so that people just have to enter hh mm am/pm... and not the :

In the onBlur event of the control... put this...

var myTime = {dialog.Object}.getValue('myTime');
myTime = myTime.toUpperCase();
{dialog.Object}.setValue('myTime', myTime);

When you leave the control, go and get the control value... uppercase it, and put it back. Make sure that's how it's being saved. It should be since you're making the field dirty.

[BillWFG]

Re: Time field with am / pm capitalized

This is a little bit tricky, in a sense, because from what you've written you've already tricked Alpha into letting you apply a Client-side mask to a numeric control. You don't get a "Mask" choice on a numeric control.

However, you probably set it as character, set the Client-side Mask to 00:00 ll and then changed it back to numeric. I'm guessing.

This, however, has absolutely nothing to do with your question. I'm assuming you want the Mask... so that people just have to enter hh mm am/pm... and not the :

In the onBlur event of the control... put this...

var myTime = {dialog.Object}.getValue('myTime');
myTime = myTime.toUpperCase();
{dialog.Object}.setValue('myTime', myTime);

When you leave the control, go and get the control value... uppercase it, and put it back. Make sure that's how it's being saved. It should be since you're making the field dirty.

[BillWFG]

Re: Time field with am / pm capitalized

In my UX I have a control that is a textbox with the field property type as time and my control is called "timeDue". In your code do I need to change the name of anything to "timeDue"? Also when I add your code "onBlurr" where do I add it to "Action Javascript", "Text Mode" or "server side Xbasic".

Thank you so much for your help with this issue. I have done nothing but think about this issue since i realized that Alpha didn't have anything in it's properties to correct the time lower case am / pm to upper case.

[GGandhi]

Re: Time field with am / pm capitalized

take a look at this, see if this helps:
http://screencast.com/t/BkrwyOye

I am sure david can give you a javascript example, I find this easy to implement.
hope this is helpful

dim length_time as n
	dim time_field as c
	time_field = e.dataSubmitted.end_time
	time_field = remspecial(time_field)
	length_time = len(time_field)
	if length_time=5
		time_field=0+time_field
		end if
		dim hh as c
		dim mm as c
		dim ampm as c
		hh = substr(time_field,1,2)
		mm = substr(time_field,3,2)
		ampm = substr(time_field,5,2)
		time_field = hh+":"+mm+ampm
		time_field = convert_type(time_field,"Y")
		
		e.dataSubmitted.end_time = time_field

something to remember:
you don't have to save the data as it is in dialog or ux if you want to call it.
you can change it to any type or even any fixed value via e.dataSubmitted filed holder and save it to the backend.
say I am typing Gandhi you can save that as berger if you want.

nifty I think.

[Davidk]

Re: Time field with am / pm capitalized

In my UX I have a control that is a textbox with the field property type as time and my control is called "timeDue". In your code do I need to change the name of anything to "timeDue"? Also when I add your code "onBlurr" where do I add it to "Action Javascript", "Text Mode" or "server side Xbasic".

Thank you so much for your help with this issue. I have done nothing but think about this issue since i realized that Alpha didn't have anything in it's properties to correct the time lower case am / pm to upper case.

Your code would look like this...

var myTime = {dialog.Object}.getValue('timeDue');
myTime = myTime.toUpperCase();
{dialog.Object}.setValue('timeDue', myTime);

onBlur is a Client-side Javascript event of the control... in that case, timeDue. If you click on your control, timeDue, and then look at it's properties section on the right... scroll down and you'll see a Javascript section. In the Javascript section you'll see onBlur. Click it's builder and then, in the radio buttons at the top, select "Text mode" and then paste your code in there.

When you exit your timeDue field, onBlur fires, and the code will run.

[GGandhi]

Re: Time field with am / pm capitalized

david that works perfect.
when i tried i do not know why it kept saying the object does not support toUpperCase()
strange
but still good to learn.

[BillWFG]

Re: Time field with am / pm capitalized

David thank you for taking the time to help me with my problem. I added it to the onBlurr and it worked perfectly. If I can help you in the future please let me know till then thank you.

[BillWFG]

Re: Time field with am / pm capitalized

Govindan Gandh I reviewed your code and watched the video. Thank you for that video it was very easy to follow and I would have used it but I already had added in the code that David Kates sent me. Although I enjoyed seeing another way to accomplish what I wanted and that was to capitalize the am/pm letters after the time. I was only interested in getting the control for time to look good on my form. I didn't want some to be caps and others to be lower case. So now I can do that and also I learned allot between you and Mr Kates. Thank you.

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