Current Date and Time

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vadim.rogatskin
vadim.rogatskin Member, ALL USERS, Community Member Posts: 5 Contributor

It would be great to have a function to get current date and time. Timezone settings could be common for all users and maintained in the settings section

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  • mcconachie
    mcconachie Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Partner, Community Member, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Occasional Contributor

    I think it would be great if we could even have a function that called on UTC date and time. We could write a formula to convert based on model needs. 

  • JASONDANIELSON
    JASONDANIELSON Member, ALL USERS, Partner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 4 New Contributor

    The ability to garner a current date or date time is critical functionality in any project and most use cases. I may not be speaking for the entirety of the community, but Im guessing a sizable percentage of the modelers care less about the how and more about the function. With performance considerations (of course) any viable method to pull the current date and/or date time would be a drastic improvement over what is available today and something that allows us to get this information directly from the system without additional build means we're focused on delivering results as opposed to spending time and effort to produce this data. Please consider adding this functionality asap.

  • JASONDANIELSON
    JASONDANIELSON Member, ALL USERS, Partner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 4 New Contributor

    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any details you can share? Timeframe, etc? Appreciate the feedback!

  • JASONDANIELSON
    JASONDANIELSON Member, ALL USERS, Partner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 4 New Contributor

    @DavidSmithGreat news David and really appreciate the follow up! 

  • wquan
    wquan Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Certified Master Anaplanner Posts: 5 Certified Master Anaplanner

    @alexpavel Agreed - the idea should be merged into the one you showed me as that's exactly the same requirement I'm looking for. As community boss, can you do this?

     

    @angs75 Yep that's definitely a viable option whilst we don't have this sort of functionality!

  • jean-francois_l
    jean-francois_l Member, ALL USERS, Partner, Certified Model Builder, Community Pioneer Posts: 5 Master Anaplanner of the Year

     

    Good morning all,

    Time stamping will allow better traceability and therefore better quality! Roll on the year 2021 - the year 2020 is to be forgotten - COVID-19!

  • thutten
    thutten Member, ALL USERS, Partner, Certified Master Anaplanner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Certified Master Anaplanner

    what is the status on this item?

    It has been on the roadmap for considerable time?

  • Sukh_Sandhu
    Sukh_Sandhu Member, ALL USERS, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Master Anaplanner of the Year

    Where are we on this?

  • Sukh_Sandhu
    Sukh_Sandhu Member, ALL USERS, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Master Anaplanner of the Year

    Thanks for Update.

  • jakesachs
    jakesachs Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Community Member, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Contributor

    Any update on this?

  • Sukh_Sandhu
    Sukh_Sandhu Member, ALL USERS, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Master Anaplanner of the Year

    What is latest on this?

  • hkaser
    hkaser Member, ALL USERS, Partner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 2 Occasional Contributor

    Is there an update?   

  • maricel
    maricel Member, ALL USERS, Certified Master Anaplanner, Community Member, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Certified Master Anaplanner

    Appreciate an update please. 

  • zbunting
    zbunting Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Community Member Posts: 5 Occasional Contributor

    I'd also like to request an update. It would be especially useful to setup an action using Cloudworks that takes the current date from in a specified time zone and update the Model Calendar. This currently requires a third party system to source the date.

  • alexpavel
    alexpavel Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Partner, Certified Master Anaplanner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Master Anaplanner of the Year

    @zbunting totally agree :).

    Also, it would be possible to implement Current Date/Timestamp by creating a new action type.. see below link: 

     

    https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Idea-Exchange/Update-Current-Timestamp-by-adding-a-New-Action-Type/idi-p/106819