DateTime Attributes

Dates and times can be entered for these attributes in the following ways:

• Dates can be entered in two ways:
  • Using the “date picker”, which is the calendar icon to the right of the date field. Clicking on the date picker icon displays a calendar from which you can choose the required date — the selected date is automatically entered in the date field.
  • Manually enter the date. If entered manually, it must be in the following format:

    YYYY-MM-DD

    where YYYY = year, MM = month, and DD = day.

    For example: 2008-08-25

    As you enter the numbers, the hyphens are automatically entered for you.

    If required, you can also manually enter just a portion of the date, starting from the left. For instance, you can manually enter just "2009" in the date field — this means "all of 2009". Or you could enter just "2009-05" (the hyphen is automatically entered) — this means "all of May 2009". Or you can manually enter the entire date.

• Times are optional. If entered, they must be entered manually, in the following format:

  hh:mm:ss.nnn

  where hh = hour (using the 24-hour clock), mm= minute, ss = second, and nnn = milliseconds.

  For example: 15:30:00.000

  If the time is not specified, Openspace assumes “all times” for the specified date. For example, if you specified “Start Date = 2008-10-04”, with no time, it will return all work items that were started on Oct. 4, 2008, regardless of the time they were started.

  If desired, you can enter just a portion of the time, starting from the left. For instance, you can enter just "10" in the first of the time fields — this means "all times that begin with 10 o’clock".

  Note that all times that are displayed in Openspace are based on your local time. So even if someone else in a different time zone than you starts a process instance, when you view the process instance, the start time is shown in your local time. It is your local time that you would enter in a filter dialog.