Displaying the timestamp of creation of a Section Report.

Question:

How can I display in a Section Report of Elipse E3 the timestamp of its creation?

Solution:

To do so, you must:

1. Add a Demo Tag with Type property set up as 3-Current Time.
2. In the section report, add a Label or TextBox.
3. Add a script to the Report Section to pass the value of the Demo Tag to the Label or TextBox.
4. In the script, convert the tag to Data format, because a CurrentTime tag will return the current time in Double format.
5. Finally, in the same script, change the Field formatting and adjust its OutputFormat property.

Example:

Sub ActiveReport_ReportStart
dim Application = Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Reports.E3ApplicationLink"))
Application.LinkWithApplication(rpt)
Me.TextBox1.OutputFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss"
Me.TextBox1.Value = DateTime.FromOADate(Application.GetServerValue("Data.CurrentTime"))
End Sub