Date validation

[Former Member]

Hello

I don't have a lot of experience writing javascript of an interactive Form and I need to validate the date entered by the user is > than tomorrow's date. This date is in a table so I wrote the code in the validate event of the field. I don't see the error message even if I write a date in the past. Here is the code:

data.Sect.Action.Action.Row1.dueDate::validate - (JavaScript, client)

var todayDate = new Date();

var newDate = this.rawValue;

// define 1 day in milliseconds

var oneDay = 1 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;

// add 1 day to the today's date

var tomorrowDate = todayDate.getTime() + oneDay;

if(newDate < tomorrowDate)

{

xfa.host.messageBox("Please, do not write date in the past");

this.rawValue = tomorrowDate;

}

Could you please help me?

Thank in advance!

Marie-Josée

[konchada_saikrishna · Accepted solution]

Hi Marie,

There are couple of things to consider in your code.

The date function gives a date in a date time format.

And your field on form not sure what format is it set to.

I have the below script, use "nextDay" thats in DD/MM/YYYY format and compare it with your user selected field. that should work.

var today = new Date();
    var dd = today.getDate();
    var mm = today.getMonth()+1; //January is 0!
  var tmp = dd+2;// (For the 3rd day);


    var yyyy = today.getFullYear();
    if(dd<10){
        dd='0'+dd
    } 
    if(mm<10){
        mm='0'+mm
    }
  if(tmp<10){
        tmp='0'+tmp
    }

    var formattedDate = dd+'/'+mm+'/'+yyyy;
    var nextDay  = tmp +'/'+mm+'/'+yyyy;
xfa.host.messageBox("today  = "+today );
xfa.host.messageBox("ftdDate = "+formattedDate );
xfa.host.messageBox("nextDay = "+nextDay );

I had the alert messages for you only to test the script.

Cheers,

Sai

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply I was able to solve it using this code

var tomorrowDate = new Date();

tomorrowDate.setDate(tomorrowDate.getDate() + 1);

var formatTomorrowDate = util.printd("yyyy-mm-dd",new Date(tomorrowDate));

var newDate = this.rawValue;

if(newDate < formatTomorrowDate)

{

     xfa.host.messagebox("Please enter a valid date");

    this.rawValue = formatTomorrowDate;

    xfa.host.setFocus(this);

}

Regards,

Marie-Josée