Auto date field

I am looking to put in a field that will automatically
populate the current date mm/dd/yyyy - I am creating a certificate
for the user to enter their name and print out the certificate with
the date they took the course. also while I am at it how can I
create a button for them to print just the current captivate page..
Thanks

Hi devokan and welcome to our little community
For the print bit, check out fellow Adobe Community Expert
Paul Dewhurst's print widget. You can see it by
clicking
this way cool and super handy little link.
For the date bit, I'm thinking you would have to resort to
using JavaScript. Still struggling a bit, however, with how you
would tie it into the movie. (or I suppose we should start calling
them projects now, since that's the term being used all over in
Captivate 2
As I understand it, ActionScript is more or less very similar
to JavaScript, so maybe something could be done in Flash that would
accomplish this. My Flash skills are nowhere near that level yet,
so I'll have to defer to one of our resident Flash experts for
that.
Cheers... Rick

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Nathan
"Marc Prud'hommeaux" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Nathan-
This is a bug. I've reported it at:
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Nathan
"Marc Prud'hommeaux" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Nathan-
If you change them both from Integer to a Long field, then does it
work?
>>>
>>>
In article <[email protected]>, Nathan Voxland wrote:
Here is the code for the class and the ApplicationId class. The
ApplicationId class was generated using the appidtool.
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private String name;
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* kodo.enhance.ApplicationIdTool
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Nathan
"Marc Prud'hommeaux" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Nathan-
Is the primary key field an Integer in both the application
identity
class and the persistent class itself? They need to both be the same
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[email protected])?
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t.java:393)
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at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39
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sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl
.java:25)
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Source)
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at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39
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sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl
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java)
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va:137)
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kodo.jdbc.runtime.UpdateManagerImpl.flush(UpdateManagerImpl.java:72)
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kodo.runtime.DelegatingStoreManager.flush(DelegatingStoreManager.java:158)
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at
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at
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at
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at
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at
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at
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at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl
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Nathan
"Patrick Linskey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
What behavior are you seeing that is preventing you from using
Integers?
-Patrick
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I am using 3.0.3 and have a PC class that uses application
identity
and
MSSQL server, so we are using auto-increment fields for our
primary
keys.
In the past (with sequence-generated ids) we have used Integers
for
our
mapped attributes, but with the application identity, it seems
we
need
to
use ints. Is there a reason for this, or is it a bug?
Nathan
Marc Prud'hommeaux [email protected]
SolarMetric Inc. http://www.solarmetric.com
Marc Prud'hommeaux [email protected]
SolarMetric Inc. http://www.solarmetric.com
Marc Prud'hommeaux [email protected]
SolarMetric Inc. http://www.solarmetric.com

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