Deleting a date

[chemi]

I have a date field. By default it is blank.
Once I enter a value... I haven't found a way to remove it. I mean, I want to have a date for some books but for others the date field should be blank or unknown.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance,

Chemi

[Jimmy-Jim]

Select a book, Click "Edit Meta Data". To the right of the meta data fields, you'll see green recycle icons. Clicking those will clear the associated field, the Date field included.

[chemi]

Thanks!

[chaley]

Originally Posted by chemi

I have a date field. By default it is blank.
Once I enter a value... I haven't found a way to remove it. I mean, I want to have a date for some books but for others the date field should be blank or unknown.

I assume that the date is a custom column.

Three ways to clear a custom date:

1) In edit metadata (single), click the "Clear" button under the box for the date.

2) In edit metadata (multiple), click the "Apply changes" box leaving the date empty.

3) In the spreadsheet view, change the date to year: 0101, month: 01, day: 01. (And no, there isn't a way to add a "clear button" here).

[theducks]

Since you had the answer to Date.

How do you blank (Not just set it to Zero) a Custom Column number field (in my case #pages) ?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by theducks

Since you had the answer to Date.

How do you blank (Not just set it to Zero) a Custom Column number field (in my case #pages) ?

set it to -1000000, or use the process described in the thread Reset book's numeric field to blank.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by chaley

set it to -1000000, or use the process described in the thread Reset book's numeric field to blank.

I had missed that one

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by chaley

...And no, there isn't a way to add a "clear button" here).

If that situation were to change, it would be cute to have a "today's date" button too

BR