Field option in Variables area under the Insert tab

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
May 6, 2020
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When I insert the Field with the date "yyyy" format, it inserts in the HTML the following code:

<?rh-variable_start name="date" format="yyyy" showcode="showcode" value="43956.371377" ?>.

What value="43956.371377" means? Is it safe to delete it? What role it plays?

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Amebr

Community Expert

Does that fix your issue?

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Amebr

Community Expert

Assuming Robohelp Classic, try double-clicking on the field and unticking the "Auto-update this field" checkbox.

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jigneshs24552355Author

Known Participant

I tried it. This is how the code looks like now:

<?rh-variable_start name="date"
format="yyyy" showcode="showcode" value="43958.542095" constant="TRUE" ?>

There is one more item Constant now.

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Amebr

Community Expert

That's the date represented as a number, so if you delete it, I imagine you'd break the field.

Try this in Excel to see what I mean.

Type a date.

Change the format to Number and the date changes to something similar to the field value:

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jigneshs24552355Author

Known Participant

Thanks.

Challenge is it keeps on changing whenever I edit anything in that topic where I inserted this field. So, I was just looking for a way where I can fix the field.

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