Add a field to a form from which contents come from a function

[mtrojahn]

Hello,

I have the need to add to a form a simple read-only textbox to display a string received from a function. I know about dictionaries function fields but that is not exactly what I need because they are bound to be used with "glidefunction:yyyy()" and I need more than that.

Here is the context: we have several customers from very different timezones and I want to show their actual time when the user access their account form. I have luxon imported as a UI Script and I can use it freely to convert between timezones. I just need a way to have a textbox (that is not a field on the database) to display this time

Like this mockup

Is it possible somehow?

Let me add that, for now, what I am doing is having a Dictionary Function Field with a script like 

glidefunction:concat("", "")

which concats 2 empty strings and displays the empty textbox. On the page load, there is also a client script that then uses g_form.setValue to set the textbox to the time. This is clearly a very ugly workaround I would like to avoid.

[Hemanth M1]

Hi @mtrojahn ,

Can you try field message, display mesage right below the timezone field with the time using 

g_form.showFieldMsg('field_value',dynamic time,'info');

ex:

[Hemanth M1]

Hi @mtrojahn ,

did my response help?  if so,

[mtrojahn]

It could be an option, but that is not what I am required to do. The users want that information to be shown as if it was a part of the form.