Set default valus from another control on UK

[doula]

Hi Guys ..... the old grey matter is running slow .... need a bit of help

I have a UX running against a MySql table with 3 textbox date controls (in this order):

Closing Date
Start Date
End Date

The UX will be on a web page for adding a new record. When the Closing Date is populated I want the End Date to be set to the same date as the the Closing Date as the default. The user needs to be able to change the end date if they wish.

How do I get the default value in the End Date set to the Closing date?

Thanks for your help.

[Michael1954]

Re: Set default valus from another control on UK

var closeDate = {dialog.Object}.getValue('closeDate');
{dialog.Object}.setValue(endDate,closeDate);

CAUTION if you set this on an onChange event then the user edit could overwrite your work.

so you probably want to wrap it in an if statement.

[jgrannis]

Re: Set default valus from another control on UK

Unless there is something a little more complicated than described, I would simply set the End Date at the same time and with the same value that I set the Closing Date. I don't see the need to "daisy chain" the setting of the values.
But I suppose you could also use the .setValueFrom method after the event that you use to populate the Closing Date.

[doula]

Re: Set default valus from another control on UK

Thanks for the quick response .....

The Closing date is the closing date for job applications to be submitted and the End date refers to the end date for the job advert to appear.

Jeff .... There is a specific need to populate the End Date as the Closing Date is filled so where do I use .setValueFrom?

Michael ... We want to fill in the End Date with the date from Closing Date and then give the user an opportunity to change the end date if they wish so ..... would we use the onChange event on the Closing Date control and what would the code be?

Thanks for your continues interest.

Cheers

[Michael1954]

Re: Set default valus from another control on UK

The problem is you populate the end date from the closing date. The code will overwrite the End date onChange so if the user returns and edits the closing date any data they put in end date is over written.

It depends on your usetry setting an if staement to check if the end date has a value then you can skip further updates.

[jgrannis]

Re: Set default valus from another control on UK

Ah Ok, I assumed for some reason that when you said "populate" the Closing Date that it was coming from the database and not being populated from user input.
In any case, setValueFrom would be used in the same way as Michael describes except that you save 1 line of code because you don't have to do getValue then setValue.

[doula]

Re: Set default valus from another control on UK

Thanks Michael ....

I understand what you mean ....

How we envisaged the process is that at this stage of the process the user can edit or change dates ..... once the user is committed to placing the job advert the dates will be submitted to the table and will be read only where the dates are used on other UXs or lists. So .... does that alter the thinking about the onChange?

Is this where we put

var closeDate = {dialog.Object}.getValue('closeDate');
{dialog.Object}.setValue(endDate,closeDate);

and will this acheive getting the date into the End Date?

Thanks for your continued interest.

Cheers

[doula]

Re: Set default valus from another control on UK

Thanks for your help .... here's what I did and it Worked!

On the Closing Date onChange I put an InLine Javascript action:

{dialog.Object}.setValueFrom('Advert_End_Date','Closing_Date');

This sets the End Date when the Closing Date is entered and enables the user to change the End Date if they wish.

Now in a simlar way ...

I want to calculate the no of days the advert will run by calculating the difference between the Start Date and the End Date and set the No of Days control with the result.

Where and how will I do that?

Your help will be much appreciated.