A problem regarding Date?

Question

hi
I have made a  input fieldUI element of type  date.I want a error to come when user dosenot enter this field .
I am doing it in this fashion:
view.java
//wdInit()
      this.intialize();
void intialize()
  wdContext.currentcontextElement.setInputfield(new Date(0));
//void checkMandotry(java.lang.FieldName)
        all that to generate error message.
//onMyActionClick
void onMyActionclick()
   Date date1=wdContext.currentelement.getAttributeValue();
if(date1.equals(new Date(0))
     this.CheckMandotry()
But in my application 01/01/1970 comes by default on my inputfield which i donot want?
How to do this?
Please help me
regards
Nidhideep

Answer 1

Hi,
  You can use the below code to check.
If you dont want to see anything in the input field, just dont intialize with any value in the intialize().
Date dd = wdContext.currentContextElement().getDate1();
if(dd == null ){
   wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess("Empty");
    checkRequired();
}else{
   wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess("Not Empty");
Regards,
Sridhar
Message was edited by: Sridhar kanchanapalli
Message was edited by: Sridhar kanchanapalli