Today's date option in date picker

DEVONthink
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I have created a date custom metadata field called ‘Review Date’. It defaults to 01/01/2001 which is fine.

I often want to set it to today’s date, but this option doesn’t appear in the date picker and I have to manually enter the date (it would take too long to get to today navigating with the date picker).

I can set the date using a smart rule, but this seems a long way round since in many other apps I use, going direct to today’s date is one of the buttons in the date picker.

I may be doing something wrong with the picker. Could we have a today’s date button in the picker?

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What does the smart rule do, just set the custom metadata?

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Yes. Run on demand sets ‘Reveiw Date’ to today’s date.

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It’s not incorrect to have such a small, singular smart rule but it would be as easily accomplished with a script.

It could be as simple as this…

tell application id "DNtp"
	if exists (content record) then add custom meta data (current date) for "Date" to (content record)
end tell
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A future release will support this without having to use scripts.

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Thanks to you both @BLUEFROG @cgrunenberg

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You’re welcome :slight_smile: