Field script to extract earliest date from table field

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  • September 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM #52968

    Peter Riley
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    My freezer inventory db (template attached) has a table field in which I record each time I make a batch of a particular recipe. The table field’s fields include things like the quantity of meals frozen, and the date frozen. I have a field script that correctly populates a Total field with the total remaining meals from each record’s table, and I have tried to do the same with a date field – ‘Earliest freeze date’ – to extract the oldest frozen meal from that recipe, using the following script so I can then include the field in a search:

    record.getMinOfLinkedFieldForField('fld-7b64bb627a8a4beaadacd625f3c4e46a', 'fld-557ef5d4175949a8a0ac0b7b3cf5f932');

    This is the total script – ie there is no function – but for a batch of meals frozen on 21 April 2025 and 14 September 2025 I get ’21 Jan 1970 at 05:46:30′ in the script field. The console shows the result of running the script as 1745190000. The Result Type is set to ‘Date’.

    Is getMinOfLinkedField not appropriate for a date calculation?

    I’m assuming it’s not possible to script a search through the freeze dates of the table field?

    Thanks

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