Only allow the first of a month as valid date selection.

[Scott Gibbons]

Dear Community,

I want to restrict the user to be only able to select the 1st of a month with the variable type DATE .

For clarity, this means the user cannot select any other date within September other than September 1st.

I am also open to other suggestions like being able to select another date but the field defaults to the 1st of the month (with a fitting UI message of course.).

Thanks in advance,

Scott

[Muhammad Khan]

@Scott Gibbons 

Use onChange() Client Script with GlideAjax on your date restrict the value in date field.

Try this in the background script.

var gd = new GlideDate();
gs.info(gd.getDayOfMonthNoTZ());

if(gd.getDayOfMonthNoTZ() > 1)
    gs.print('Only 1st date of month is allowed.');
else
    gs.print('Date is correct.');

For Scoped Application, see the below image for reference.

For Global Scope Application, see the below image for reference.

[Kalyani Jangam1]

Calculate first date of current month

var gdt = new GlideDateTime();
var dt= gs.beginningOfThisMonth(gdt);
gs.print(dt);

[Maik Skoddow]

Hi

in my opinion it is a bad user experience if the user is allowed to select only one day and it also causes some efforts which have the touch of a workaround.

Why don't you offer the user a selection of month names and set the date internally to the first day of the selected month? This makes more sense to me from the user's perspective.

Maik

[Scott Gibbons]

Totally with you and the proposal of an alternative to the calendar had already been posed to the PO. Here exploring my options though.

Thanks for the input. Much appreciated.