Script To Set Date Mask On Keyboard Field

Description

You may have the need to have user-entered dates all conform to a certain date format, such as mm/dd/yyyy, regardless of how the users have entered the dates.

Solution

Create a script to adjust the date mask.

The following script is an example of how to manipulate a date Keyboard field for dates using the mm/dd/yyyy format:

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<pre class="syntaxhighlighter-pre" xml:space="preserve">//define variables

var input1 = label.fields.field.(@name == 'Date').@data;

var myarray = new Array (0,0,0);

var myarray = input1.split("/");

if (myarray[0]!="")   {   if (myarray[0].length == 1)

    {myarray[0] = "0"+myarray[0];}

  if (myarray[1].length == 1)

    {myarray[1] = "0"+myarray[1];}

  if (myarray[2].length == 2)

    {myarray[2] = "20"+myarray[2];}

  if (myarray[2].length == 1)

    {myarray[2] = "200"+myarray[2];}

  }

label.fields.field.(@name == 'Date').@data = myarray[0]"/"+myarray[1]"/"+myarray[2];</pre>

Article Number

2013012

Versions

Loftware Label A label is a design area on the computer screen where a label format is created or edited. Manager / Loftware Print Server versions 9.5.2.0 - 11.1

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