Set Current Date

May 28, 200322 yr

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.

May 28, 200322 yr

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.

May 28, 200322 yr

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.

May 28, 200322 yr

CDML -- HTML:


<form>

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

</form>

May 28, 200322 yr

JS:

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

May 28, 200322 yr

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.

May 28, 200322 yr

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

May 28, 200322 yr

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

Thank you.

May 28, 200322 yr

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...

May 28, 200322 yr

No irony was intended. I meant what I wrote.

May 28, 200322 yr

... even better

May 29, 200322 yr

Author

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

May 29, 200322 yr

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