Date field on catalog item can not be prior to the current day's date

[Cupcake]

I have a date field where I want to ensure that the date selected from the date variable is not greater than the current days date. I have the following code for another date field that has to be 5 days out. Not very good with the date thing yet, so 1) should i have something like a (-1) in my dateMS portion of the script. And 2) will it render an error if the customer tries to select a date in the past or should I include some code that has an alert type of box stating something like "Please select a future date"......

var today = new Date();

var dateMS = today.getTime();

dateMS = dateMS + (5*24*60*60*1000);

var newDT = new Date();

newDT.setTime(dateMS);

g_form.setValue('ftr_needed_by',formatDate(newDT,g_user_date_format));

Thank you,

Karen

[zica]

Karen,

I am glad that your script is works

However, I think that does not cover every cases.

I explain : we are the 8th today. Could you please choose 2nd march 2016 as date on Needed_by_date field ? For this case, the field should be erased >> test successful

Now, could you choose 16th February 2016 as date ? Unless I am wrong, I am afraid this test wont succeed.

Could you please let me know ?

Kind regards,

Za

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[Cupcake]

I may not be fully understanding what you are trying to say. I only wanted to prevent someone from selecting a date prior to today's date. I did test it out, and I was not able to select (in your case/example) March 2nd. If I tried to select March 2nd - the form will not allow it, you would receive the error message and you will have to choose a date either today or any date after.

       

I did go back and selected February 16th and you are correct, it did allow me to select that day. I will go back and check the code again.

I hope I successfully answered your question for the most part.

Thank you,

Karen

[zica · Accepted solution]

Karen,

Nothing wrong with the code, what happening is that 'getUTCDate() returns the day;

The reason that it did not allow you to select 2nd March is because 2 is lesser than 8 (current day) and conversely 16 (febr) is greater than 8 !!

I will suggest you to try with dateDiff() method to calculate the difference between two date/times given.

let me know if you have more concerns

Kind regards

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[VarunS]

And what worked for me is the below client script.

function onChange(control, oldValue, newValue, isLoading) {
    if (isLoading || newValue === '') {
        return;
    }

    // Get today's date, stripping off the time part
    var today = new Date();
    today.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);

    // Create a date object from the newValue
    var selectedDate = new Date(newValue);
    selectedDate.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0); // Normalize time for accurate comparison

    // Check if the selected date is less than or equal to today's date
    if (selectedDate <= today) {
        // Show an alert if the selected date is not in the future
        alert("Date of desired ongoing to production cannot be in the past or today's date. Please select a future date.");

        // Clear the current value of the date field
        g_form.setValue('date_of_desired_ongoing_to_production', '');
    }
}