Auto-Fill a Date Field

rpjoseph

I would like to drop the current date on an item in datacapture.cfg. The following script is in an initialize function called by my cfg file:
if ( IWDatacapture.getItem( "/Date" ).getValue() == null
|| IWDatacapture.getItem( "/Date" ).getValue() == "" )
{
IWDatacapture.getItem( "/Date" ).setValue( getDate( 0 ));
}

Here is the getDate function:
function getDate( number )
{
today = new Date();
today.setDate( today.getDate() + number );
return(( today.getMonth() + 1 ) + "/" + today.getDate() + "/" + today.getYear());
}

Here is the section in my datacapture.cfg file that I am trying to affect:
<item name="Date">
<description>Specify the date to associate with the press release.</description>
<label>Date (MM/DD/YYYY)</label>
<text required="t" validation-regex="^[0-1]?[0-9]/[0-3]?[0-9]/[0-9]{4}$" maxlength="10">
</text>
</item>

The field is blank. Does anybody see what I am doing wrong or have a better idea? Thank you

mgal

Did you try using inline callout?