Set Current Date

halbj · May 28, 2003

does any one know how I can set a FM field on a webpage to the current date? By JS or just using FM?

Thanks

Hal.

EddyB · May 28, 2003

It is possible both ways

Easiest is through FM

Create a calculation field for the date Status(CurrentDate)

Place this field on your web page

Javascript is a bit more involved.

Ed.

Anatoli · May 28, 2003

IMHO -- there is also build-in function in WC and CDML.

There will be difference in execution:

1. JS will have client date

2. CDML will have the date from FMU machine

3. the same will be for the Status method.

Leb i Sol · May 28, 2003

CDML -- HTML:


<form>

<input name="Date" type="text" id="Date" tabindex="9" value="[FMP-CurrentDate]" size="15">

</form>

Leb i Sol · May 28, 2003

JS:

http://developer.irt.org/script/date.htm

Unable · May 28, 2003

Leb i Sol, I am unfamiliar with some of your code. What is " id="Date" tabindex="9""? Is this something new in FMPro6? I can't find any reference to id or tabindex in my HTML reference. Thanks.

Leb i Sol · May 28, 2003

sorry that has nothing to do with FM....

"id" is just a name of the field and "tabindex" sets the order ( HERE )

so could have used:

<form>

</form>

just as well

Unable · May 28, 2003

That tells me a lot. I've learned something. I'm glad I asked.

Thank you.

Leb i Sol · May 28, 2003

That tells me a lot. I've learned something. I'm glad I asked.

Thank you.

hmm...do I sense some irony in this post?!

well...soooorrrry but this is the simple way of looking at it....follow the link above if u need more in-depth info but really that is all there is to it.It is up to u to use it...it is just a matter of how organized u want to be and how much u care about the code vs. funcitonality....my post/code was a snip soooo that is why it looked odd.

anyway...

Unable · May 28, 2003

No irony was intended. I meant what I wrote.

Leb i Sol · May 28, 2003

... even better

halbj · May 29, 2003

OK... I was not really clear.

I want the user to be able to click a button on the details (edit) page that will set a date field to the current date. I also want them to be able to type in another date if they want to.

I thought a JS attached to a button would be the easiest - just don't know how to do it?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers

Halbj

Garry Claridge · May 29, 2003

There have been some lengthy threads on this (with Javascript). However, they may have been quite some time ago.

In the <body>:

<input type="hidden" name="mydate">



<a href="#" onclick="insDate();">Insert Date</a>









In the <head>:

<script>



function insDate()



   {



   sToday = getDate() + "/" + getMonth() + "/" + getFullYear();







   document.myform.mydate.value = sToday;



   }



</script>

Hope this helps.

Garry

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