Thread: Time Entry Form

I've been scratching my head, trying to figure out new ways to get through the mundane task of entering in times.

I've come up with about 5 different methods, 4 of which are included in this database (at the bottom of this thread).

I always wondered how hard it would be to make an analog clock to enter in times, and now I have my answer. It's not hard, but it is time consuming.

I also flirted around with spinners, and option groups.

Of course I had to include the easiest method, input mask.

In the not so distant future, I will be submitting a time-card program that will allow for time card entries, and also do calculations and reports.

Anyhow, that's a future project, hopefully you'll enjoy this sample database. I know the coding could have been cleaned up a bunch, but, I simply ran out of time.

Here's the database sample:

Nice work, benji! A great comparison of methods. While the analog clock is very clever, it takes up a lot of valuable room on a form. My favorite is the spinners.

Thanks Benji

I needed an easy way to adjust the time part of a date-time field, so used your spinner in a pop-up form, demo attached.

Glad I could help, and using it as a popup form is definitely nice. I also have used spinners on this module to include ways to change the date and time. Or, on the date section, you may want to look up AOG's calendar example in the database samples thread.

Hi,
I checked out your examples and they look really good but sadly I can't copy any of them, I'm thinking you might be able to help though...
I'm making a scheduling system and I need to enter the time and date into one cell field together because that is the way the visual schedular reads it. But to make it user friendly I want users to be able to select the date and time in a pop up box that on saving will drop it into the field in the form and the table behind it.

I'm really stuck on it any ideas? Thanks