Make custom field look like the Duration field

Marcel H_ · ‎06-02-2017

I am wondering if there is a way to make a custom field look like the OOB Duration field. I have a group that wants to track the total number of days its team members travel, but do not like the way that the standard Duration field looks on reports (from task_time_worked table) since they care only about total days and don't want to track Hours, Minutes and Seconds. You and specify a minimum value for duration of course, but I don't believe there is a way to go the opposite direction (and if I'm not mistaken, reports will ignore that attribute anyway).

I created a custom Decimal field on my custom table extending Task and am populating another custom Decimal field on task_time_worked via business rules. What I'm looking for though is to style my form field that I created to track days so that it would look very similar to the Duration field in appearance:

Duration:

Desired appearance for custom field:

Kalaiarasan Pus · ‎06-20-2017

I have just started learning Bootstrap and was able to simplify the code a bit. Just adding this incase someone is looking for this.

Create a UI macro and add it to the formatter. Below is the UI macro code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">

<div class="form-group">

<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3 col-lg-4">

</div>

<div class="col-xs-10 col-sm-9 col-md-6 col-lg-5">

<div class="input-group">

<span class="input-group-addon">Days</span>

<input type="text" id="customDays" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter days worked" />

</div>

<div class="col-xs-2 col-sm-4 col-md-4 col-lg-2">

</div>

</j:jelly>

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sachin_namjoshi · ‎06-02-2017

Hi Marcel,

You need to add field decoration in your custom duration field to display only days.

http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Dictionary_Attributes#Available_Attributes

Regards,

Sachin

Michael Fry1 · ‎06-02-2017

Specially, you need add scale =0 in the advance view of the dictionary. You can only add it to the Attributes field and then it will add it to the attributes on the bottom of the dictionary: