Text From Time

Text Properties -  Datasource  Set to Time

Selecting Time as the datasource for text will cause the interface to change as follows.

The text object will display time according to the format you specify.

Format - Select the format of the time

Pattern - The pattern of the time format. You can customize the time format by clicking the Customize check box.

The valid patterns for the time format are as follows

• h - hours in 12-hour format , 1 digit, e.g 1
• hh - hours in 12-hour format , 2 digits, e.g 01
• HH - hours in 24-hour format , e.g 13
• m - minutes in 1 digit, e.g 5
• mm - minutes in 2 digits, e.g 05
• S - seconds in 1 digit, e.g 8
• SS - seconds in 2 digits, e.g 08
• tt - display A.M or P.M

For example, the pattern HH:mm:SS will show the time as 13:05:12

Time - select the display time, which can be

• Current Time
• Current Time Plus - Current Time plus a few seconds, minutes or hours
• Current Time Minus - Current Time minus a few seconds, minutes or hours

Field Name - name of the input field. This variable name can be used in the Linked Field feature. For example, you can have two fields, one is Serial Number, the other,  Part Number. This two fields are given the field names serial and part. In the Linked Field feature, the data of this two fields can be combined together to form a new field.