Auto fill year

24 votes

Auto fill date fields with year. E.g., 0602 becomes 6/2/18.

Under consideration Suggested by: Ted Knopp (20 Jun, '18) • Upvoted: 01 Apr, '22 • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

02 Jul, '18
Michael
This would not benefit all users, as some users are querying or inputting data for other years than current. However if you would like a tip on date fields, using the 'T' key will populate the day field to 'Todays' date. Also by pressing 'D' or 'Shift+D' will increment days forwards and backwards respectively. There are also hotkeys for months, hopefully this helps!
07 Sep, '18
Charlene Wainright, Billing Specialist
It would be great to allow putting in 2 digit year instead of 4 digits, and also be able to type the / and NOT have Abacus go back to the first digit, something like Excel allows. For example, if I want to run a report from day 1, I change the first date to 01/01/2000. It would be great to be able to type 1/1/00 and Abacus changes the field to 01/01/2000. Instead, you must always type all 8 digitis in a year, with no slashes. It can be a pain sometimes. :/
24 Oct, '18
Ruth VanWolde
I'd love a "T" key for today and a "Y" key for yesterday!
02 May, '19
Tomas (from client)
Keyboard shortcuts are nicely summarized here:
http://help.abacuslaw.com/Lawwin.htm#The_Basics/Keyboard_Shortcuts.htm
N. B.
+ or d advances a date field by one day
- or shift+d retreats a date field by one day
16 May, '19
Karla
I think most users understand that they have to manually input the year if it is different than the current year. I constantly have to go back and put in the year because I put in the month/date then hit tab.