How do you set a date field value using Javascript?

DanielOtt — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:12:09 GMT

I'm trying to write javascript code to set a date field value during a form's onOk event. I'm running into a type mismatch error. I'm using the following code:

function myEvent_onOk() {
var oFields, oDate;
oFields = ThisEvent.Object.Fields;
oDate = new Date();

oFields("CREATED_ON").Value = oDate.toString(); // I've also tried oFields("CREATED_ON").Value = oDate;
}

When I perform a typeof(oFields("CREATED_ON").Value), the typeof operator returns a type date, which AFAIK isn't a typical javascript type. Doing a typeof(oDate) returns type object.

Any ideas how to get around this?

Thanks,
Daniel

Re: How do you set a date field value using Javascript?

DanielOtt — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:59:37 GMT

I got this issue resolved by following the last JScript example under the section heading
'>Initializing a DateTime control.

My code ended up being this for my form's OnOk event:

function form_onOk() {
    var objForm = ThisEvent.Object;
    var dtDate = new Date();
    
    if (objForm.Fields("CREATED_ON").IsNull) {
        objForm.Fields("CREATED_ON").Value = dtDate.getVarDate();
    } else {
        objForm.Fields("UPDATED_ON").Value = dtDate.getVarDate();
    }    
}

(A thank you to Mark for pointing this out to me!)

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