Editing Date, Time and Date/Time Properties
For properties of type date, time, and date/time the following applies:
• For each part of the property a separate input control is available.
• Navigation: After you enter the hour, you are advanced to the minute's part automatically. If you want to manually navigate between parts of the time field, you can press the Tab key to advance to the next part, or you can use the arrow keys to move left and right between the time parts.
• Auto-fill: If you do not provide all parts of the value, the remaining parts are filled automatically. For example, if you are entering the hour, and then click outside of the field, other parts of the time property are filled automatically with the current time.
• Auto-correction: The auto-correction mechanism helps you limit the number of characters that you need to enter by analyzing your custom data. If for example you enter “21” in the year field and press the Tab key, the year is converted automatically to “2021”. If you enter “3” in the month field, the value is changed automatically to “03” because the MediaCentral Cloud UX knows that there are no months that start with 3 as the first digit.
To edit a date, time, or date/time property:
1. To set the field to edit mode, do one of the following:
Click in the field. This highlights the first control.
Double-click on a part of the property (for example, the hour) in the field. This highlights the corresponding control.
2. Do one of the following:
Type the figures.
After you typed the second figure, the control to the right is highlighted for input.
Press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow key to increase or decrease the figures.
To delete figures, highlight the figures and press the Del or Backspace key.
Since each part of the property requires a valid input, an invalidated figure will be automatically corrected when you leave the input control.
Press the Esc button. This discards your input and ends editing mode.
3. To navigate between the controls within the property, do one of the following:
Click on the next input control.
Press the Tab key to advance to the input control to the right side.
Use the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys to move left and right between the input controls.
4. Click outside the property.
Pressing the Tab key when the cursor is positioned in the rightmost input control also leaves the property.
5. To remove the entire value from the property, click the X button that is shown at the right side when you hover thew mouse-pointer over of the field.
6. (only required if auto-save is disabled) Click the Save button to save your changes.