Aug 21, 2019 09:03 AM
I am having the most difficult time just trying to clear a date in a field where I’ve previously entered a pickup date. When that pick up gets cancelled, I simply want it to be blank once again. I’ve tried backspacing, selecting and hitting the space bar and the moment I leave the field, it is repopulated with the last entered date! I must be missing someithing simple! What am I doing wrong?
Aug 21, 2019 09:16 AM
Aug 21, 2019 10:03 AM
Is the type of the field in question an actual Date Field (as opposed to a Formula Field or a Lookup/Rollup)?
Aug 21, 2019 11:52 AM
Another explanation could simply be sharing constraints. I think a table without write attributes would behave this way, maybe?
Aug 21, 2019 01:45 PM
A Date with a Time Field included.
Aug 21, 2019 01:47 PM
Maybe it’s different because this Date field has the time includes a time field option?
Aug 21, 2019 01:48 PM
Date Field with the time option turned on.
Aug 21, 2019 01:49 PM
I tested that as well - worked fine for me.
Is there a possibility you’re looking at this base from an account where the base was shared to you without the ability to make changes?
Double click the field name and copy/paste what you see here.
Aug 21, 2019 01:59 PM
Thanks, but I just figured it out. Looks like, as long as I wipe out the time field first - it’s no problem to wipe out the date. If I try to wipe out the date field while there is still a time, it just keeps reappearing.
Thanks for all the assistance.
Aug 21, 2019 02:01 PM
This is why I was asking if you are using the [delete] key. It wipes the entire cell - no need to specifically select and delete two separate elements of the cell.
Nov 11, 2019 03:00 AM
Hi everyone!
I have been having a problem clearing the Date Field info. Up until now if I deleted the time field first i could then delete the date without problem but now when I try to delete the time “part” & it changes to the current time.
Is anyone having the same problem?
Thank you
Nov 11, 2019 05:09 AM
This actually happened to me for the first time the other day. Until then, I was very confused about this post :joy:
It happened while I was using the desktop app (for Mac) and was trying to delete the entire date out of a field in an expanded record. I couldn’t delete the entire date at once; only the time or the date, which would then reset each time I exited the field.
Seems like a bug to me. I was able to remove the entire date by exiting the expanded record and doing it directly in a grid view.
Nov 11, 2019 05:23 AM
Hi!
I am sorry for the lack of clarity, sometimes it is hard to take a step back and report to people that are not looking at the same thing.
I figured out that on grid view it was possible to delete the entire thing, but suddenly not being able to do it on expanded record view is kind of a pain in the behind.
Thanks!
Mar 13, 2020 01:41 PM
I struggled with this one too. Click the field box itself, not the date and time (as you might expect to), then hit delete.