I have a solution to print receipts for goods sold at point of sale counter. I want the current date and current time (down to the second) to be printed at the time the receipt gets printed out. I have placed a time field and a date field in the footer part of my receipt layout, but it just won't refresh. Can anyone tell me how I can go about fixing this problem?

Make sure you specify the fields as calculations with appropriate results, make sure they are unstored and the calculation is calling on the right data...

Date Field... Calc, in storage options change it to unstored and make the calculation = Get(CurrentDate) with the result being date... for the Time Field same thing, Calc, in storage options change it to unstored and make the calc = Get(CurrentTime) with the result being Time...

Ah, i hope that works, never worked with anything lower than fp7 sorry...

Genx

Edited December 15, 200520 yr by Guest
Noticed FP6

Actually, you don't need any fields for this. Just put the date and time symbols (// and :: in the footer.

... i swear that never worked for me...

Thank you. I have been struggling with this problem for some days. But right after posting my problem, I suddenly thought of another step and my solution works! The culprit? I did not set "refresh window".