how to bring system date on a custom date field

[sivaprakash123@…]

How can i bring today's date or system's date on my custom date field when creating a new ticket. Right now the datefield value is provided as text.

Thanks, Sivaprakash R

[anonymous]

I have created a custom field which want to user to specify the date but the field default value is a text value. Im trying to bring system's date or today's date when creating a new ticket.

Thanks, Sivaprakash R

[Ryan J Ollos]

A creation timestamp is already stored in the ticket table: ​trac:TracDev/DatabaseSchema. I guess you must want a ticket field to default to the current date but also have the ability to change the value in this field though.

Note also that a true datefield has been added in ​trac:milestone:1.1.1, which is a "dev stable" release, and it will be available in the forthcoming "production stable" release, Trac 1.2 (approximately 3-6 months from now).

On the datefieldplugin/1.0​ branch I'll implement a feature that will cause the special string <now> in the value field to be replaced with the current date. Example use:

due_date.value = <now>

See DateFieldPlugin@51 for more info.

[Ryan J Ollos]

In 14330:

3.0.0dev: Replace the special value <now> in the value field with the current date. Fixes #12049.