https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-field-for-submission-only-shows-date-not-time Gravity Support Forums Topic: merge field for submission only shows date, not time? en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:36:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-field-for-submission-only-shows-date-not-time#post-100840 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:43:38 +0000 David Peralty 100840@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That's a perfect solution, and exactly what I was going to write when I was reading through your problem. Kudos! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-field-for-submission-only-shows-date-not-time#post-100561 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:03:19 +0000 f_devocht 100561@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I looked in the forum for a solution but didn't find one. Lots of hints though.<br /> So this is how I solved it.<br /> I solved it by putting a hidden field on the first form (in my case the field ID = 41 and form ID = 4).<br /> I then added this code to functions.php:<br /> <pre><code>add_action(&quot;gform_pre_submission_4&quot;, &quot;pre_submission_handler&quot;); //4 is the ID of my form function pre_submission_handler($form){ $_POST[&quot;input_41&quot;] = date(&#39;d/m/Y | H:i:s&#39;); // 41 is the ID of my hidden field }</code></pre> <p>On form submission, field 41 is filled with the submission date and time.<br /> A confirmation text message asks the user if he wants to fill it out again, with the url to the 2nd form.<br /> This url has the merg tag of field 41 in it (amongst others), so it is sumitted to the 2nd form.</p> <p>In that 2nd form (a duplicate of the first form with an extra id for the previous submission date), I'm dynamically filling that submission date I had in the 1st form.</p> <p>This works great. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-field-for-submission-only-shows-date-not-time#post-100534 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:08:53 +0000 f_devocht 100534@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I would like to use a merge field to fill out the submission date of the previous form.<br /> I can use {date_dmy} for this, but I also need the time.<br /> How can I fill out the time? The time is there in the excell export, so surely I must be able to use it as a merg field? </p>