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Q&D Action button to set Date Value with Lotus Notes Formula Language
Posted under Show-n-Tell+Thursday, Lotus Domino, on Thursday, October 12th, 2006;A quick and dirty way for doing this. No error checking, big assumptions about the input to the prompt being right.
nd := @Prompt([OKCANCELEDIT]; "Enter the New Date"; "YYYY/MM/DD."; @Today);
@If (nd ="";@Return("");"");
y := @Left (nd;"/");
m := @Left(@Right (nd;"/");"/");
d:= @right(@Right (nd;"/");"/");
FIELD DateFieldOnForm := @Date(@TextToNumber (y) ;@TextToNumber ( m)
;@TextToNumber ( d) )
the Key is parsing the string with @lefts and such, and then TextTonumber, to put humpty Dumpty back together again. The @Date means it is a Date field on the document, not a text string.
The better, clean, way would be to use LotusScript and open a form in Dialog box mode, the form having a Calander tool on it.
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October 14th, 2006 at
You could always use tmp := @Explode(nd;”/”) and then subscripts on the tmp variable to make the code alittle more compact.
Sean—
October 23rd, 2007 at
I’m trying to use my own code and your code but neither seem to work in Domino 7. The @Today part is not working. Any ideas?
FIELD date :=(@Prompt([OkCancelEdit]; “Enter implementation date”; “Format: MM/DD/YYYY. Ex: 10/01/2007″; @Today));
and
nd := @Prompt([OKCANCELEDIT]; “Enter the New Date”; “YYYY/MM/DD.”; @Today);
@If (nd =”";@Return(”");”");
y := @Left (nd;”/”);
m := @Left(@Right (nd;”/”);”/”);
d:= @right(@Right (nd;”/”);”/”);