Update 'date' field with today's date on workflow state change

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We are using the Workflow module in ERPNext to monitor some Document states (like Initiated, Started, Ending, Closed, etc.). There are Workflow State fields named ‘Update field’ and ‘Update Value’. I would like to update the ‘actual_end_date’ field in a Document when state changes to ‘Closed’.

What I tried:
Update Field: actual_end_date
Update Value: frappe.utils.nowdate()

Update Field: actual_end_date
Update Value: datetime.datetime.now()

But this results in an error:

ValueError: ('Unknown string format:', 'datetime.datetime.now()')

Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong? How can I use the today date/time inside the Workflow States?

Thanks.

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Anyone?

3

@stiemi you will need add a custom script, something like that

frappe.ui.form.on(cur_frm.doctype, {
    "workflow_state": frm => {
           if (frm.doc.workflow_state == "My Target State"){
               frm.set_value("actual_end_date", frappe.datetime.nowdate());
           }
     }
})
4

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. We’ll try that, instead of doing it directly from the Workflow State ‘Update Field’ option.

Thanks.

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Unfortunately this doesn’t work… For some reason the workflow_state change event is not triggered when the state changes using Actions → [New state name].