Question

. I am trying to add a today's time as a default value to one of the fields of the form. I can type any text and the form will show the typed text. But the current date will never show up. I have seen a sample in ItemToDoForm. I have done the same thing, but it does not work. Is it a recent addition to the TWiki? Should I get a TWiki upgrade for that? Thanks a lot, Twiki newbie

• TWiki version: 01 dec 2001
• Web server: apache
• Server OS: win nt
• Web browser: ip 60
• Client OS: win xp

-- SergeiPushnof - 12 Apr 2002

Answer

The ItemToDo form uses the following in the HTML form to create a new item - try this:

  <td> <input type="text" name="DueDate" size="12" value="%SERVERTIME{"$day $mon $year"}%" /> 

This should work in your release, but other variables to try include %GMTIME%.

-- RichardDonkin - 13 Apr 2002