Forms / System Date & Time

[bgirard1]

Does anyone know if it is possible to have the system date and time appear on a Peachtree Form (Sales Order). We have several time sensitive issues with our orders and need to have this information appear.

The fields don't appear to be available in the forms designer.


B. Girard
Valtech Corporation

[dringstrom]

I think your best bet is going to be to use an external program to print the invoices. PawCOM from www.multiwareinc.com is one solution. Another would be Crystal Reports. Yet another is a custom Excel application using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). In short, it's fairly easy to get the data out to another program, and from there you'll have the option of adding system date/time.

[arcadia2]

Peachtree has a system variable called $(date)$ that you can insert that will give you the system date. However, it only give the date and not the time. I tried it in various reports and it worked ok but I got a "Peachtree has performed an illegal ..." message when I tried to use it in a sales invoice form. Perhaps you will have better luck. Just place a text field onto the form and any text you wish such as: "Printed: $(date)$"