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Mike_EMike_E 

Is there a way to identify time of day within a formula or workflow?

I am trying to automate the selection of a picklist value based upon the time of day that a user enters a record.  I would like to do this without having to write APEX code.  Is there a way within a formula to identify the time as part of the date/time value to use as criteria?

 

Thanks.  Mike Edwards.  www.saasmaint.com

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Sorry man, I don't think so.  The set of functions that work with datetimes are very few.  What you'd need is to be able to create a datetime that represents midnight of the day in your source datetime field (and then to subtract the midnight datetime from your source), but I don't think there's any way to do that in the formula language, only in Apex.