Coding Less Than Sign

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January 5, 2017
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Can you code a less than sign. If a date is entered before 1/1/2017, I would like to create an alert. This is the script I came up with but it's not working and I can't find anything out there on the internet for it.

if(event.value > "01/01/2017"){

app.alert("Please confirm the date entered",1);

Thanks.

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JR Boulay

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Hi.

You should read this post: Re: I need help creating a script that calculates a persons age

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try67

Community Expert

You can only use these operators on numbers, not on strings.

To compare dates is a more complex process. You need to first convert the strings to a Date object (using util.scand), and then you'll be able to access their getTime method, which returns a number of milliseconds for that date, which you can then compare with another date.

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Anonymous

I am very confused with this as I have not encountered what you are suggesting. Do you have a link I could read through in order to figure this out? Is this something I do in the document level or within the Field properties?

Thanks.

try67

Community Expert

Let's take a step back. What are you trying to achieve, exactly?

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