[SOLVED]Calendar Default Date

Hi,

I created a calendar control in my HTML and had set its date forrmat to "trMYY". Now i try to set a default value to the calandar through IBI.AMP variable and pass the value from a fex. Irrespective of what ever format i set my local variable (using CHGDAT or DATECVT) it always displays in YYMD format in the HTML. I want the default date to be displayed as trMYY and it has to be a valid date (not a string) because this value will be passed to the backend when the form is submited. I have not tried JS yet, before that i would like to know if this is something tat can be accomplished through FEX.


The default value i used in HTML form is 

!IBI.AMP.CURRENT_DT;



The fex used to call the html looks like this

-SET &CURRENT_DT = &YYMD.EVAL;
-HTMLFORM client_revenue_detail.htm

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Waz

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You are setting &CURRENT_DT to &YYMD, What is the defined format of the calendar control ?

What happens if you set &CURRENT_DT to a valid trMYY date ?

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Try something like this for creating your calendar default value:

-SET &CUR_YYM   = EDIT(&YYMD,'999999$$');
-SET &RPT_MTHYY = LCWORD(14,CHGDAT('A6YYM','MXYY',&CUR_YYM,'A14'),'A14');
-SET &RPT_MONTH = GETTOK(&RPT_MTHYY,&RPT_MTHYY.LENGTH,1,' ',9,'A9') || ',&|nbsp;' ||
-                 GETTOK(&RPT_MTHYY,&RPT_MTHYY.LENGTH,2,' ',4,'A4');

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Saravanan J

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Thanks much Dan, your code works perfect. It also points the calendar to the default date on initial load. I had problem with using the

 &|nbsp;

. It throws js script error, so i removed it. Is there a workaround for that? Even otherwise i am good without the space between month and year.

Waz, -SET does not allow me to set the type of the date. When i tried setting the value like