show/hide using a date function?

[GGandhi]

Re: show/hide using a date function?

why do you need the ux to filter the grid, is there something else to be done?
or just have the grid add search and select the date and it will filter the grid is that not good in your situation?

[jjedrasik]

Re: show/hide using a date function?

Right now in the UX i have a control that allows the user to select a date, a button, and an embedded grid.

As it stands, the button forces a page refresh, and takes the value of the date control and saves it as a session variable. This session variable is used to filter the grid.

The default value of the control for the date current is Session.Date, which is so that when the page refreshes, that selected date stays in the field.
After applying your code, it properly does the show/hide, but the control for the date no longer keeps the variable on page refresh, rather, it reverts it to blank, and thus the grid cannot be drawn.

Is it something from the show/hide expression that may have caused this, or something else I have missed?

Thanks

[GGandhi]

Re: show/hide using a date function?

i need to digest that information. may be you can explain what actually in the ux/dialog.

also the previous code may rewritten as

function myFunction(date_value) {
j1 = new Date(date_value);
j1 = j1.toFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
var dd = new Date();
dd = dd.toFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
if (j1 == dd) { 
return true;
 }
 else {
 return false;
 }
}

[jjedrasik]

Re: show/hide using a date function?

Hi there,
Thank you for the help, it does sort of work. I'm not super clear on how certain bits of alpha work so it may be my fault.
I wrote in the JS function, and then on the clientside show/hide for the control (the button), i added the function and passed in the control that holds the date.
So upon changing the date, the button shows/hides as expected, but that seems to have led to another problem...

Currently as it stands, I change the date on my ux, and click an 'add filter' button to save the information to a session variable. The button forces a page refresh to redraw the embedded grid I have on it.
Currently, the default value of the date field is set to the session variable so that on refresh the same value remains in the control. Once I added the code in, that value no longer stays in the control once the page refreshes, which also causes the grid not to draw since it depends on that date variable to filter.

[GGandhi]

Re: show/hide using a date function?

on the client side show/hide expression add
myFunction(your_control_name)
and in the javascript function add this code

function myFunction(date_value) {
j1 = new Date(date_value);
j1 = j1.getTime();
var dd = new Date();
dd = new Date(dd.getFullYear(),dd.getMonth(),dd.getDate());
dd = dd.getTime();
if (j1 == dd) { 
return true;
 }
 else {
 return false;
 }
}

and see if that works for you too.

[jjedrasik]

Hi there,

I'm currently trying to make a show/hide expression for a button, such that if today's date is not equal to the date of a control on my UX, the button will not show.
I tried using a javascript function (the date is in mm/dd/yyyy format), but that always returned false. Anyone have an idea of how this can be done?

Thanks