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The date control can be used in a form as a date, time or date plus time control. The Control Type property Type property lets you select from a dropdown of choices: date, time or date/time. Rules can be applied to the Date/Time control in all variations. See the Rules Examples chapter containing numerous examples and code samples.
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The Time control is used to denote the time of the time of the day. This means it has no dependencies on time zones or offsets. It will not shift based on whether or not Daylight Savings Time is observed in a time zone.
The Date/Time control relies on the timezone of the browser. The time portion will be calculated based on the date and whether or not Daylight Savings Time is observed in that time zone.
For example, A time of 5:00 PM is entered into a Time control and a date of 2/5/2014 plus 5:00 PM into a Date/Time control by a user located in the America/New_York (Eastern Standard Time). When the submission is viewed in the EST time zone, the Time Control displays 5:00 PM. This value will not change. The time portion of the Date/Time control also displays 5:00 PM, because it takes on the timezone of the browser (EST) and it is not further adjusted because Daylight Savings Time is not observed in EST on February 5th.
If the submission is viewed in the Tijuana (Pacific Standard Time), the Time the Time Control will display 5:00 PM as it did in EST but the Time portion of the Date/Time control will show 2:00 PM as it will be adjusted by the browser timezone, PST.
Time Zones
In general, form data is displayed in the browser’s time zone and saved in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in the submission document. The form’s time zone is inferred automatically from the browser’s time zone. The time zone, once set, cannot be changed for that form instance. An example can be seen when you click on the test icon in the designer. The form URL will have the &_formTz=<tz> parameter with the value of the browser's timezone appended to it. The URL for a form being tested in the Eastern DayLight Time (EDT) timezone would be:
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The control options default to "true=Yes" and "false=No". When you drag the control from the palette, only the "Yes" option will be visible. You can change the option labels from Yes and No to whatever you want. It is important to note changes to the label for false are irrelevant as it will never be visible on the form. The option values cannot be changed and will always stay as true and false. Blank labels for options are not allowed. Checking the “Yes” checkbox of the Boolean control results in a true value in the XML document.
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Let's say you wanted to modify a section of your form to reflect a horizontal layout as shown in the image.
One approach would be to use the Table and Radio Controls. Another alternative is to use a Message control in conjunction with a Radio control to accomplish this. Follow these steps:
- Use a Message control for the labels Fellowship announcements, Conferences and workshops and Other major news and events
- Place the Radio control with options to its right.
- Check the Hide Label property of the radio control.
- Here is what the form looks like in Use mode:
Link Control (for URLs)
Use the Link Control when you want to include a URL in your form. When users click the link, the target URL will open in a separate browser window. The Link control has a default button color and is automatically decorated. You cannot remove the decorator or change the button color. Unlike most controls, the default width of the control, when dragged from the palette and dropped into your form is 3 columns. Click here for more information. The New Line property is checked by default.
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