Prompt for input

[Jon Millar]

Just wondering , could you add a prompt for input that asks the user to “enter a date” and then return what ever records have that date in a field eg “arrival_date”.

The prompt would simply be “enter search date” and then the returned records would be what ever records match that date.

Or is there something like a date picker that the prompt could use?

Any info/tips gratefully received!

Cheers Jon

[Brendan]

The Prompter class does not support a date picker. But you could just ask for the date to be entered in as text then use the Date.parse(dateString) function to parse a string into a date.

[Jon Millar]

Thanks Brendan, I’ll have an experiment with that. Cheers.

[Daniel Leu]

I have a little prompter helper library that makes it easier to use the Prompter, at least for simple cases. You can find it at: https://api.danielleu.com/public/tf5/v1/files/prompterHelper-v2.js

Place the code in a form named Scripts and call it prompterHelper. Here is a little example:

document.getFormNamed('Scripts').runScriptNamed('prompterHelper');

async function myFunction() {
  
  try {
  	await textPrompter('Enter date');
	console.log("Text entered: " + prompterVar);
  } catch (errorText) {
  	// user clicked 'Cancel'
  	console.log('cancelled');
  	return;
  }
  
  // user clicked 'yes'
  // continue with function
  // main code here
  console.log('continue from yes');
}
 
myFunction();

As you see, the entered text is stored in the variable prompterVar. As Brendan showed, this would need to be parsed in order to get date object.

[Jon Millar]

Hi Daniel,

Sorry I didn’t see this until today, but this is great I really appreciate it. I shall have a play around with this and try to incorporate into my db.

Thanks again! 😁

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