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Missing Date Time Custom Field

James Hurst (ddxweb)

Set Event Start Date is looking for a Date and Time Custom Field, but you can't even create a custom field of type Date/Time despite being asked for 2-3 years ago and being basic to all CRMs.

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October 2, 2022

Adrian (CORE)

We need this functionality as well. Since we can't use the calendar booking form to select multiple time slots, we manually created one using a form submission. However, the only problem is that we can't directly book the user into the calendar. There is a disconnect in the system.

Alex Pitcher

For anyone who comes across this, I have a workaround that should be totally unnecessary, but should work in a lot of use-cases.

Create a custom field for time which is a single drop down.

Make every option a "time" in the format HH:mm AM/PM - so 08:00 AM/ 14:00 PM for example (I did every hour and half hour from 8am to 8pm, I hope no one needs to add :15/:45)

Create a Custom Value or custom field called "dateTime" or whatever you want really this will only be used to store a formatted datetime in a workflow
in the workflow, choose custom code
Inputs are "date" and "time". Choose your Lovely date Custom field for date and the new custom field for time
Add some java script to convert the 2 input values into 1 output value in the right format (ask chatgpt)

Note that the format needed for various date based things can differ (excellent...). But I think for most, use this format:

DD-MMM-YYYY HH:MM, Ex : 21-OCT-2021 08:30 AM

Also note that custom code will occur additional charges.

Add the output into the Custom Value or update the custom field: should look like this: {{custom_code.1.output.result}}
Use the custom value/field as the Event Start Date/Book Appointment, etc.

"why not just use the custom code output in the event start date?"

Because you can't. No idea why. You have to add the additional step.

Hope this helps someone.

Robert Wazlavek

Sales & Marketing Prasoon Dadhich This is a major oversight by GHL. We absolutely NEED a custom field for time, either separate from or combined with the date field, or both.

Leslee Mcelrath, MD

This is a needed functionality. This is limiting what I can do in the automations.

Derek Woodward

I can't sort by TIME? This should be done by now.

Michael Kittinger

Why is this not done yet?

Lacy from Mastermind

Not having a date/time field is a major roadblock for us to migrate our clients from other services.

Dani Martin

This really should be an option for a custom field, as the other comments mention it is a basic field for all other CRMs

Jon Hawker

Sales & Marketing Please see this. Should be an easy addition to add Time or Date/Time to a custom field.

Christopher Sauls

This is a MUST!!! Need to be able to push TIME into custom field for starting event reminders

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