How to Add a Date Picker Control to a Form in the Authoring Tool

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Service Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager, System Center 2012 - Service Manager

A Date Picker control in the System Center 2012 – Service Manager Authoring Tool is used for displaying dates on a form. You can modify the properties of the Date Picker control to customize characteristics such as the format of the date that is displayed.

Use the following procedure to add a Date Picker control to a form.

To add a Date Picker control to a form

  1. Ensure that the Form Customization Toolbox pane is open and that the form that you want to customize is open in the authoring pane.

  2. Drag the Date Picker icon from the Form Customization Toolbox pane to the form. Click the Date Picker control on the form.

  3. In the Details pane, select the Binding Path property. Click the ellipsis () icon, and then in the Binding Path dialog box, select the class property that you want the Date Picker control to bind to.

  4. Click any property, such as Date Format, in the Details pane to customize the properties of the Date Picker control.

  5. Click File, and then click Save All to save the custom form to a management pack.

See Also

Forms: Customizing and Authoring