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DateTime Picker default to now

Solved500 views19th June 2025datepicker datetime picker
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Richard Coulson [DevOps Member]284 3rd January 2025 1 Comment

Is it possible to make the DateTime Picker in a connector default to the current time?

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 19th June 2025
José Silva [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] commented 4th January 2025

Hi Richard,
Could you elaborate a bit more your use-case?

If you want to always display on the DateTime picker the current time, you could try to use a timer (e.g, every minute or x seconds) to trigger a QAction to update the value.
Kind regards

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Pieter Van Compernolle [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]3.37K Posted 6th January 2025 4 Comments

Hi Richard

Are you referring to the DateTime Picker of a 'write' parameter like below screenshot:

I believe it now initializes with the something around the time of Cube startup. Other setters typically take the current value of the linked read parameter as initial 'set' value.

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 19th June 2025
Richard Coulson [DevOps Member] commented 6th January 2025

Yes. That's correct. When we don't specify a default value, the timepicker will default to 1899-12-30 00:00. We had considered using a qAction to set a time parameter but I was wondering if there was a simpler method.

Pieter Van Compernolle [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented 7th January 2025

In my example, the time in the setter defaults to the Cube start-up time (visible in the screenshot of my reply, I did not make any selection yet). Can you maybe share your Cube version together with the parameter definition from your protocol either here in this dojo question or in a support ticket? Then we can take a closer look where the difference originates from.

Richard Coulson [DevOps Member] commented 7th January 2025

I can confirm that the default is the cube startup time when using the cube. I was using the low-code app parameter page widget which was defaulting to 1899.

Sebastiaan Dumoulein [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented 8th January 2025

Hi Richard, this is something that we can improve in the software. I've created a task in your M&S project for further follow-up (https://collaboration.dataminer.services/project/18422/list/task/258445).

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