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Button that sets todays date in LiveCycle

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2011-06-20 09:01:50
brennanhobart
Registered: Oct 9 2007
Posts: 37
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I have a LiveCycle form that has a simple button that I want to add some javascript that sets the date of another field when it's clicked. I figured it would look somehting like this below:
 
TechValue.WorkFlow.TCStartDate.value = "start";
 
TCStartDate is the name of the date field and I'm not sure what to enter in .value = ""; that would set in todays date when useres click the button.
 
Has anyone else dont this?
  

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
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2011-06-21 10:07:12
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radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
Accepted Answer
Hi,

I prefer FormCalc instead JavaScript for date and time functions, as it much easier to handle.

This script will populate the field TCStartDate with the current date:
TechValue.WorkFlow.TCStartDate = Num2Date(date(), "DD.MM.YYYY")

radzmar
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2011-06-21 11:44:07
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brennanhobart
Registered: Oct 9 2007
Posts: 37
Radzmar: Thanks for the answer. Your script worked perfect. I added in the name of the table .WorkTable and the row .Row1 where the text field TCStartDate resided in the hierarchy. I set the text field TCStartDate to read only and it worked great. Here's what the final formcal script looked like in the mouse up event of the normal button.

//TechValue.WorkFlow.WorkTable.Row1.TCButton::mouseUp - (FormCalc, client)
TechValue.WorkFlow.WorkTable.Row1.TCStartDate = Num2Date(date(),"DD.MM.YYYY");
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