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Time and Formatted Time
The Time element and the Formatted Time element display the current time on the device
when the form is first opened. When the element is touched, a time selector appears so the user
can modify this time. The Formatted Time element displays times in a format that depends on
the locale of the device on which the user is viewing the form. A Time Element displays dates
in the ISO 8601 format: HH:MM.
When the form is submitted, the time data is sent as plain text. A Formatted Time element
submits the time in both the ISO format mentioned above and in the format that depends on the
device's regional and language settings. A Time element sends the time in the ISO format only.
User Account
The User Account Element adds a hidden field which contains the Capture OnTheGo user
account that was used to submit the form to the server. This is useful if a form is available to
many different users, to detect who submitted it.
Email
With the Designer you can create one or more Email templates and merge the template with a
data set to generate personalized emails.
The Email context is the folder in the Designer that can contain one or more Email templates,
also called Email sections. The HTML generated by this context is meant to be compatible
with as many clients and as many devices as possible.
Email template
It is strongly recommended to start creating an Email template with a Wizard; see "Creating an
Email template with a Wizard" on page 428. Designing HTML email that displays properly on a
variety of devices and screen sizes is challenging. Building an email is not like building for the
web. While web browsers comply with standards (to a significant extent), email clients do not.
Different email clients interpret the same HTML and CSS styles in totally different ways.
When an Email template is created, either with a Wizard or by adding an Email context to an
existing template (see "Adding a context" on page 222), the Email context folder is created
along with other files that are specific to an Email context; see "Email context" on the facing
page.
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