Why do I need to use @Text to display a date field?

0
votes

I have a computed field with the following formula.

var time = "";
if(@IsNewDoc()==1) time = @Now();
else time = @Text(@GetField("FormCreated"));
return time;

The only wy I could get this to work is to wrap the @GetField("FormCreated") with @Text. The computed field is set as DateTime and FormCreated is an actual date/time value in the document.

Why does @Now not need @Text?

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1 Answers

3
votes

When you use @GetField you will get a NotesDateTime and @Now returns a java date. try this code

var time = "";
if(@IsNewDoc()==1){
 time = @Now();
}else{
var time2:NotesDateTime = @GetField("FormCreated")[0];
time=time2.toJavaDate();
}
return time;

Updated the code and added [0] at the end of the @GetField row to get the first entry from the returned vector.