Autofill Date Creation?

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Hey there!

So, a bit of an interesting request. I’m looking for a way to do a “auto number/autofill style” Date field.

I’m usually working at a lot of odd hours and my days really exist from 10 AM - 10 AM in a given 24 hour cycle. With that, the general view filtering methods of view based on “current day” don’t really work well for me- I’ve found some loop holes- but nothing perfect.

Given that I also would like to track time/duration data from a lot of my tasks via day/date tagging, I figure its just useful to kill two birds with one stone and tag a pre-set date instead. A caveat being, is that i have tasks going out months in advance, and it would be great to have a way to simply create a pre-filled new record with a descending date based on the previous one.

I’m still plugging away but havent come across anything to obvious yet!

Thanks!Hey there!

So, a bit of an interesting request. I’m looking for a way to do a “auto number/autofill style” Date field.

I’m usually working at a lot of odd hours and my days really exist from 10 AM - 10 AM in a given 24 hour cycle. With that, the general view filtering methods of view based on “current day” don’t really work well for me- I’ve found some loop holes- but nothing perfect.

Given that I also would like to track time/duration data from a lot of my tasks via day/date tagging, I figure its just useful to kill two birds with one stone and tag a pre-set date instead. A caveat being, is that i have tasks going out months in advance, and it would be great to have a way to simply create a pre-filled new record with a descending date based on the previous one.

I’m still plugging away but havent come across anything to obvious yet!

Thanks!

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@Julian_Kirkness

I may not have a ready solution for you but here is an idea that might help. As you must know, that the Content List can trigger a workflow to do some automated tasks. But there’s a limitation that the workflow can set field value of the item but cannot trigger a modified event on itself. But you can use two Content List do the tricky. One will create a data based on the given rules in another list. Another workflow can be triggered to do the rest.