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How to auto populate on DateTime on insert or update?

Posted: Tue 07 Jan 2014 21:45
by Steven
Using Delphi Xe2 and v2.2.5 of LiteDAC Professional and can't seem to figure how to auto populate a DateTime field when inserting a new record into my SQLite table.

For example when using the DBNavigator control to Insert & Post or Edit & Post, etc.

I'm using TLiteQuery, TLiteDataSource along with TCRDDBGrid.
My form also has various DB Control controls like TDBEdit and DBNavigator.

I tried researching online and attaching code to the various events in the controls but I am still stumped.

Edit:
I was assuming that I could do this via code, is this something that must be done using triggers?

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: How to auto populate on DateTime on insert or update?

Posted: Thu 09 Jan 2014 12:36
by AlexP
Hello,

In order for the field to be filled in automatically on inserting a new record, you should set the default value for this field on table creation, as well as enable the DefaultValues option

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CREATE TABLE test (id INT,  data TIMESTAMP DEFAULT current_timestamp);

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LiteQuery1.Options.DefaultValues := True;