Hi, I am using the Date/TimePicker and I want the user to be able to input a time that is
rounded down to
nearest 5 minute interval
ahead of current time
i.e. if it is 8.44am, it would be rounded up to 8.45
++
When I try to do it on the minimum date, it saves it to the current time rather than up to 5 minutes ahead.
The same occurs when I try to do it on the initial content.
I have tried:
and
and several other combinations.
Can it be done? If so, how? Thanks!!
When I try to do it on the initial content, it gives a time
Iâm not sure I understand what youâre doing with your expression there?.. (the first one just changes the time to 10 past the current hour, and the second one just adds 5 minutes to the current time).
Iâm also not sure why youâre doing any of that in the Initial Content.
So perhaps Iâm completely misunderstanding what youâre trying to doâŚ
But canât you just set the minimum date and time to the current date and time, and set the time interval to 5 minutes?
Iâm putting it in the initial content because I donât want the user to have to put in the date - which would be ok if I would work out how to have it have initial content for date but just placeholder for time, but looking at the forums, that appears not to be possible?
Unfortunately, while the time picker shows it as 5 minute intervals, when it saves, it saves as the current time rather than to the nearest 5 minutes. Which would be solved if the user had to input the time, which having a placeholder would solve, were it not for me wanting the date to contain initial contentâŚ
At least this way, it rounds to the nearest hour ahead, and it is likely the user will want to change the time. But to the nearest 5 minutes would be better if it were possible
Ah, sorry, I meant that the user will usually want todayâs date, so should only want to click it if they want to input a different date, which they will usually not.
The app is for time blocking, so the user will want to put in different times to start.
Hi Adam, that is fantastic! Also a little complicated to implement - how do I get it to put the parentheses in, and how, in the boolean formatting, do I copy what you put so that it appears blue?
Hi Adam, I have tried copying this by writing it out, and by copy and paste, but I canât seem to do it either way. What is the trick? What am I doing wrong?
In the meantime, I havenât been able to reproduce what you wrote exactly - everything except
any expression with brackets (I canât reproduce the brackets), and
I couldnât get the date time picker to accept the conditional that you added.
I am getting the same thing as before - when the user doesnât change the date time picker before saving, the resultant saved item keeps the current time, whether or not it falls on a 5 minute interval:
FYI, @StandUp⌠to get the brackets in the expressions, you have to go to the Settings >> Versions tab and enable the experimental expression parentheses feature. With that feature enabled, the parentheses will automatically be inserted into the expressions as you build them.
Hi Adam, Thanks so much for building that out for me. I have now managed to immitate it, I believe exactly, including conditionals.
However, although the initial content is in 5 minute intervals, if the user doesnât change the time before saving, then the time saved is still whatever the current time is, whether that be on a 5 minute interval or not.
Do you believe I have made a mistake still? Or is what I am asking not actually possible in Bubble?
Thanks again for your help in this, sorry for my novice abilities! A
Yes⌠thatâs not what happens in the demo version i built⌠The selected time updates as the actual time changes (in fact the initial time in my version is NEVER the current date/time - itâs always the next fifth minute, and updates in real-time as the time changes) - the selected date/time is shown below the date/time picker so you can see exactly what it is at all times.
Hmm. I have copied it over several times now on several different new pages. I have gone through every element and copied it exactly, but for some reason I still canât see where I am going wrong. The only thing I can see that it might be is on the group number, where, when I inspected it, seems to be showing a 1 where it should be a 5?
The other thing mine is doing which I donât see on yours is that, even though I have the same workflow as yours, whenever I go back to the page, it doesnât update
I took a look and there are a number of errors in your implementation.
for example, in the Group Numberâs datasource, on the second layer of âFormat as textâ, for the parent âYesâ it should be this (this is mine):
Why are we each seeing different things on each others? Is this something I am doing wrong?
Frustratingly, whenever I try to change âyesâ to â0â, it wonât let me. Every time I do and go out of it, when I come back to it, it reverts to
As such, I have got around it by deleting the expression and putting it in again, and now it seems that something is different, but still not right - what I have ended up with is this for a bit
Oh wow, mind: blown!! I had no idea that there were or even could be two layers of boolean statements / formatted as texts!! I thought it was just me clicking in the wrong place and weird stuff was happening! Weâre bloody there!!
