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A specific date used as a notification in the help text

jbdotingco
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6 years 6 months ago #195705 by jbdotingco

A specific date used as a notification in the help text was created by jbdotingco

Need help of using a specific day of the week as a notification text in the help display of date variable.

Example, a survey is conducted every day and at the end of the week (example: Friday), some variables are needed to be filled up by the participant for the weekly updating while not required in other days of the week.

So is there a solution of notifying the participant through a help text of a date (Thursday) that tomorrow is Friday and a weekly report is due while he is updating the record on a Thursday?

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6 years 6 months ago #195706 by Joffm

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Hi,
as you know, there is no function "dayofweek" or so in LS.
So I used a bit javascript.
There is the function Date.getDay() to get the dayofweek out of a date.
www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_getday.asp

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(document).on('ready pjax:scriptcomplete',function(){
   var d = new Date();
   var dow=d.getDay();
   if (dow==4) {
      $(".myHelp").text("Tomorrow is Friday");
  } else {
      $(".myHelp").text("");
  }
});
</script>

and the helptext I set to:
<span class="myHelp">xxx</span>