Setting a Date upon Startup

[Benrie]

What is the best way to set dates upon startup? I have a web app where the user can select beginning and ending dates for search criteria. I want to set these when the web page loads up so they don't have to. How can I do this easily?

[jyoung]

There are typically two entry points you can hook into.

1. is the CreateInstance Event
2. is the Initialized Event

http://docs.lansa.com/14/en/lansa016/pr ... stance.htm

http://docs.lansa.com/14/en/lansa016/pr ... ialize.htm

The general recommended advice is to use the CreateInstance event.

EDIT
To set the actual dates, if your Field is a date type you can use something like

#StartDate := #STD_DATEX.Now

Once you have a date, there are all kinds of methods to manipulate it in the Date Intrinsics.
http://docs.lansa.com/14/en/lansa016/pr ... insics.htm

Hope this helps,
Joe

[Benrie]

Thanks Joe! I will give that a try.

[Benrie]

This solution worked as expected and is giving me the dates as I want. Thanks again!

[atostaine]

You can do #startDate := #startDate.now also