Prepopulate from a dropdown list

[Former Community Member]

I am new to LiveCycle



I am working a Time and Attendance Form and I have dropdown with approxmately 25 date ranges (pay periods) to choose from e.g.



22: 10/26/2008 - 11/8/2008

23: 11/9/2008 - 11/22/2008

etc.



I would like for days of the week to automatically populate once the date ranges are selected.



10/26 10/27 etc.



How can I do this?



Thanks in advance

Tammi

[Former Community Member]

You will have to write some script to do this. Javascript has a datobject that you can create by passing the date to it and then you can use the getDay() function to return the day of the week that it represents. There are a number of good examples on the web ....just google javascript & getDay

[Former Community Member]

Thanks for you prompt response Paul but, I don't have alot of experience with scripting can you provide me an example of how I would be able to get this to work. I need to know where to actually start the code at in xml file.



Thanks

Tammi

[ibwaheemi]

there you go tammy



http://eslifeline.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/date-manipulation/

[ibwaheemi]

i think es lifeline is the best livecycle blog

[Former Community Member]

I need a little more information. I am a newbie to LiveCycle and scripting.

[Former Community Member]

I created a sample for you ....if you post your email I will send you the form.

[Former Community Member]

Thanks so much Paul!!



My email is Tammi.McNair.ctr@mda.mil

[Former Community Member]

Just sent it