Autopopulating Date Field

[anil_B]

Hi,

Esteemed users of Acrobat Forms. I am looking for some help!

I am using the following  Javascript to auto populate Date field. Intent is that a user when first time opens the form, this date field will be auto populated and will stay same.

var currentTime = new Date();

var month – currentTime.getMonth() + 1;

var day = currentTime.getDate();

var year = currentTime.getFullYear();

var rTime = day + “/” + month + “/” + year;

this.getField(“DateReceived”).value = rTime;

I tried all the following three options for entering Javascript (one at a time) and in all cases I am getting the same error message: “Error: SyntaxError: Illegal character at line 3.”

1. Action > Mouse Up > Run Java Script
2. Action: Mouse Up > Execute Menu |  Validate > Run Custom Validation Script
3. Action: Mouse Up > Execute Menu | Calculate > Custom Calculation Script

Since I am not a Java programmer, I was wondering if somebody could please help resolve this?

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

Try this:

var currentTime = new Date();
var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1;
var day = currentTime.getDate();
var year = currentTime.getFullYear();
var rTime = day + "/" + month + "/" + year;
this.getField("DateReceived").value = rTime;

[anil_B]

Thanks a lot. That works!  [Just found out waht I was ding wrong.]

[try67]

The error message is caused by the curly quotes you're using. You must only use straight quotes (single or double) in your code for strings.

[anil_B]

Thanks a lot for pointing out this. I will note it for future reference.