The days of the week on time cards should display the corresponding date based on the week start date

[muralikrishns]

To further increase usability on time entry, let's have a way to display the actual date for the days of the week on time cards. There is a field for each day of the week.

i need to write a ui policy for   that displays the correct date next to each day of the week field

This can key off of the week start date. To display, let's update the field lables (g_form.setLabel) to match the following example: "Tuesday (7/5/2016)"

Thanks!

[Chuck Tomasi]

The HelloWorld example in the GlideAjax page is a great example to start from.

Use an onChange client script (that also runs onLoad) to watch for changes on your start week on date field. The client script calls the server via GlideAjax to calculate the dates for the various fields. It can return multiple responses at once, to which the client script's callback function can apply them to the labels using g_form.setLabelOf().

[ramireddy]

Interesting question though it involves mostly javascript, You can have a "onload" client script, and write like following. You need to call printdate function and change the fields array with your actual field names.

function printdate()
{
   var g_form = new GlideForm();
   var fields = ["field1","field2","field3","field4","field5","field6","field7"];
   for(var loop = 0 ; loop < 7 ; loop++)
   {
   var dtDate = new Date();
   dtDate.setDate(dtDate.getDate() + loop - dtDate.getDay());
   g_form.setLabelOf(fields[loop],getDateLabel(dtDate));
   }
}
function getDateLabel(dt)
{
   var weekday = ["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"];
   var fmt = dt.getMonth()+1 + "/" + dt.getDate() + "/" + dt.getFullYear();
   return weekday[dt.getDay()] + '(' + fmt + ')'
}

[Chuck Tomasi]

Thanks Ram. Great idea. I recommend changing this to an onChange client script as the "start week on" field could change, and you want to keep your labels up to date with that.

[muralikrishns]

is it possible to write UI Policy

[Chuck Tomasi]

It is, but I don't see that as a good fit here. A UI policy is great for "if this then that" scenarios. An onChange client script is better for "this field value changed, now go do that"