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Chamil MadusankaChamil Madusanka 

set Date value for apex date field in javascript onload

Hi  All,

 

I trying to set a date value for Apex date field in javascript. How to do that?

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Ankit AroraAnkit Arora

Am supposing that you want to do this by using standardcontroller on visualforce page, try this :

 

<apex:page id="pg" standardController="Account">
<apex:form id="frm">
    <apex:pageBlock id="pb">
        <apex:pageBlockSection id="pbs">
            <apex:pageBlockSectionItem id="pbsi">
                <apex:inputField id="dt" value="{!Account.End_Date__c}"/>
            </apex:pageBlockSectionItem>
        </apex:pageBlockSection>
    </apex:pageBlock>
</apex:form>
<script>
    document.getElementById('pg:frm:pb:pbs:pbsi:dt').value = '{!Now()}' ;
</script>
</apex:page>

 

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Ankit Arora

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kiranmutturukiranmutturu

u have to use the javascript's date object like this

 

var myDate=new Date();..
Ankit AroraAnkit Arora

Chamil, can you please explore more what exactly you want to do? So I can provide you the code.

 

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Chamil MadusankaChamil Madusanka

Hi Ankit,

 

I have Date field and I have used in VF page as a <apex:inputField>. I want to set date value on page onload in javascript.

 
SteveBowerSteveBower

If you are using a Custom controller, or a controller extension, then instead of doing it in Javscript, you're probably better served doing it in the Controller Constructor.

 

If you are only using a standard controller, and you are trying to set a field on the form to a specifc data value, then you need to use the $component to get the Id of the Date field, then use standard DOM to set the value for the field with that ID.  However, you might be better off setting a default value for that field in the field definition.

 

So, there are many answers depending on what you are trying to do.   Clarify your business need before digging into a specific implementation question.

 

Best, Steve.
Ankit AroraAnkit Arora

Am supposing that you want to do this by using standardcontroller on visualforce page, try this :

 

<apex:page id="pg" standardController="Account">
<apex:form id="frm">
    <apex:pageBlock id="pb">
        <apex:pageBlockSection id="pbs">
            <apex:pageBlockSectionItem id="pbsi">
                <apex:inputField id="dt" value="{!Account.End_Date__c}"/>
            </apex:pageBlockSectionItem>
        </apex:pageBlockSection>
    </apex:pageBlock>
</apex:form>
<script>
    document.getElementById('pg:frm:pb:pbs:pbsi:dt').value = '{!Now()}' ;
</script>
</apex:page>

 

Thanks

Ankit Arora

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aballardaballard

Instead of hard-coding the reverse-engineered dom-id as shown you should use {!$Component.dt} to get the dom-id for the component with id='dt'

 

document.getElementById('{!$component.dt}').value


Balakrishna MandulaBalakrishna Mandula

When I click the "Save" button date is inserted in the model. And also I am not getting date picker in visual force page.

 

In Visual force Page

<apex:pageBlockButtons >
         
            <apex:commandButton value="Save" action="{!savetherecord}"/>       

</apex:pageBlockButtons>

 

<apex:outputText >Start Date</apex:outputText>
              <apex:inputText value="{!stdate}"/>

 

 

//Controller

 

public class MyCampaign {

  public Date stdate{get;set;}

   public PageReference savetherecord(){

 

      MyCampaign__c mc = new MyCampaign__c();

      mc.Start_Date__c = stdate;

     PageReference pr = new PageReference('https://ap1.salesforce.com/a0D/o');
     return pr;
    }  

 

 

Could you please hepl me