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Hi All,

 This is my first post and i hope you can help me.

I have created a feature with sitecolumns and contenttypes. One of the columns are startdate and expiredate.

<Field ID="{03AA9C21-81F7-41d7-B5A5-CBEB40768C46}"
     Name="StartDateColumn"
     DisplayName="Start date"
     Group="News Service General"
     Type="DateTime"
     ShowInEditForm="TRUE"
     ShowInDisplayForm="TRUE"
     ShowInNewForm="TRUE"
     Description="Date from which news should be published."
     Format="DateOnly" />

But i want make the startdate default date of today. And the expiredate = default(date.Now) + 1 week.

 Can anybody help me please with this problem.

Thanks a lot.

Juniormoss :)

If you look at the schema for field definitions, there are some sub items that can be added. IE:

<Field ID="{03AA9C21-81F7-41d7-B5A5-CBEB40768C46}"
     Name="StartDateColumn"
     DisplayName="Start date"
     Group="News Service General"
     Type="DateTime"
     ShowInEditForm="TRUE"
     ShowInDisplayForm="TRUE"
     ShowInNewForm="TRUE"
     Description="Date from which news should be published."
     Format="DateOnly" >
     <Default>[Today]</Default>
</Field>

This might work, but I'm currently unable to test it.

thank you..

 i know the option to add a default item to a custom field type, but how to give value of date of now.

So you said that that is [Today].

i hope thiw will work.

Thank you.

Hi,

<default>[Today]</default> doesnt work for the sitecolumn.

Do you know something else? And for the expiredate i need StartDate(today) + 1 week. this is much more complex i think.

Can anybody help me?

Regards

juniormoss

Why are you doing this via code?  You can create custom lists via the UI settings/tools.  If you can modify the list settings for the columns, then you can set the default.  For a Date type field, there is an option to default it to 'Today'.  For the StartDate, if you create a Date type field then you should be able to set the Default ot [Today]+7 which would be today plus 1 week. 

hi fdb1,

uhhmm.. i have 1 feature to install automatically the sitecolumns with the contenttypes. In the future this will be used in more environments..

In your case i have to do this manually but i dont want that.. I want to do this automatically.

I know the option you gave, but that is not the way i want.

thanks any way

juniormoss

Have you tried adding the defaultformula tag instead of just default?

<DefaultFormula>=Today+7</DefaultFormula>

hi spa77,

thanks for your reply.. but can i use this tag in sharepoint? will it be recognized?

I've used this setting successfully within a schema.xml file on a list before and it worked fine.  What I was basically doing was setting a default expiry date field in a list item so that it wasn't always set to 'today', rather in 30 days time.  Here is the full Field node within the xml file I used.

<Field ID="{E2D38AF5-6DD4-4b3d-96F4-9C5DACC78EB3}" Type="DateTime" Name="EndDate" DisplayName="$Resources:core,End_Time;" Format="DateTime" Sealed="TRUE" Required="TRUE" Filterable="FALSE" FilterableNoRecurrence="FALSE" SourceID="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3" StaticName="EndDate">
<!-- _locID@DisplayName="camlidE2" _locComment=" "
<Default>[Today]</Default> -->
<DefaultFormula>=Today+30</DefaultFormula>
</Field>

I hope this helps you.