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~Hank Quetrepulnivu

Mar 19, 2012, 12:39 PM

53 Posts

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Date value on a form when editing

Category: Server Side JavaScript
Platform: All
Release: 8.5.3
Role: Developer
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Replies: 1

I'm trying to use the value of a date field on a current form to change the available values in a combo box on the same form

The combo box has SSJS to look up it's values and then check against the date entered in a field

The field is a standard date field using the date/time picker.

The code always returns the date incorrectly as January 1 1970. I've tried getComponentValue, and using the document data source itself, neither work

var dd = new Date(getComponent("DateField").getValue());
or

var dd = new Date(document1.getItemValueDate("DateField"));

getComponent("DateField").getValue() returns the correct date (albeit in US format, which might be the problem), I can check this by printing this value

Anyone got any idea how to get this working? I'd have thought it was simple, and I might be doing something obviously wrong but I've googled this and not found anything relevant

Cheers

~Hank Quetrepulnivu

Mar 19, 2012, 1:49 PM

53 Posts

Re: Date value on a form when editing

OK, ignore this, worked it out almost immediately after I posted (having been trying for half a day)

Need to get the NotesDateTime value first, so:

var ddt:NotesDateTime = session.createDateTime(getComponent("DateField").getValue());

var dd = new Date(ddt.toJavaDate())

I need a js date as I then need to get the day and month values (which I don't think you can do in SSJS from a notesdatetime)