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Old 10-24-2016, 08:37 AM
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I have a document for my current job which is basically a referral form. I added date and time fields to the beginning in order to save that bit of typing. However, I did not select "update automatically" and yet, whenever I open up a referral form, blank or not, it updates with the current time and date.



This would almost be useful, if it ONLY did that when I opened a new, blank referral form. It is otherwise a pain in the butt, as I have to manually type-in the date and time to keep them static. Is there anything I can do about this?

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You cannot control how a DATE field behaves, other than by locking/unlocking it. You could, however, change the DATE field to a CREATEDATE field. That way, if you're using a template, the date would be the date the document created from it is saved on. The date inserted via a CREATEDATE field will only update if you re-save the document via Save As.
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Note that createdate is undefined in new documents created from a template since the document hasn't been saved yet. So a createdate field looks like an error until you have saved the new doc and updated the field.
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Thank you for all of the excellent replies.
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Follow-up question:

I put in the following for the field:
Code:
CREATEDATE mm/dd/yyyy h:mmAM/PM
My anticipated output was the following:
Quote:
10/25/2016 9:45AM
What I got was:

Quote:
10/25/2016 9:39:00 AM


Clearly I misinterpreted something?

EDIT: I got the format how I wanted it, but I'm still confused as to why I couldn't get the AM/PM to be immediately after the time (no space) and why seconds were showing when I didn't include them in the field codes.
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