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Hi

I’m, working on a front-end form that needs to submit some custom date fields.

In the CP, the I’m instructing content authors to submit dates as ‘Fixed’ and this gives a value of ‘UTC’ in exp_channel_data in the field_dt_XX fields. This is what we need.

How can I enforce this on Safecracker submissions? Just including a date field leaves the field_dt_XX value blank which is translating to ‘Localized’ in the CP.

thanks

Darren,

What you are asking to do is possible, although somewhat “hidden”. I sorted out this very issue for another user recently and you can read the solution here. Let us know if you have any questions regarding that method. It sounds cumbersome, but it does work.

Cheers,

Thanks Dan

I’m running submissions through the ‘safecracker_submit_entry_start hook’ already so it’s no problem to inject those values without exposing them in the form.

Darren,

Excellent, just make sure to use some method to get the raw field name as outlined in that other post. Each custom field has it’s own raw field name. Let us know if you achieve the results you are looking for.

Cheers,