Add 4 business days to date variable on a catalog item

[Jeff316]

Any solutions I could find on the internet have not worked.

I only get strange behavior and have to delete the variable and create again.

We have a date field on a catalog item.

The default date should be 4 business days in the future.

If anyone is currently doing this, please help.

We only use the portal UI.

Thanks.

[Chuck Tomasi]

I was able to do this by setting the default value on the variable to something like this:

javascript:addDays(4);

Then I wrote a script include to do this for me like this:

function addDays(numDays) {
	
	var gdt = new GlideDateTime();
	gdt.addDaysLocalTime(numDays);
	
	return gdt;
}

(date displayed on 2019-01-29)

[Stewe Lundin]

This will only add 4 days to the date not 4 business days. 

// 4 business days
// first day of week MONDAY
var gdt = new GlideDateTime();
var days_to_add = 4
var day_of_the_week = gdt.getDayOfWeekUTC(); //monday will be 0
if(day_of_the_week==2){days_to_add = 7};
if(day_of_the_week>=3){days_to_add = 6};
gdt.addDaysLocalTime(days_to_add);

gs.info(gdt.getDate())

[Jeff316]

Hi Stewe,

Thanks for the quick reply. 

I'm having a bad week so any help I can get, I appreciate.

Can I do this via an on load catalog client script or as a script include?

[Jeff316]

This totally works, but I'm not sure how to get the results to display as the default value in my catalog forms date field. Either as default or onLoad.