Calculating and Displaying Dates in Javascript

Question

Hello,
I'm working on a flowchart form for my work, and am having issues getting a date to a) add correctly and b) display only certain portions of the date.
I have four fields:
CurrentDate - Displays the Current Date in MM/DD/YYYY format
DropDownList1 - Contains a list of projects end users can choose from
TextField1 - Displays text that tells the end user how many days the proejct will take
DateField1 - Should add the CurrentDate + the Number of days the project will take and return a new date in the same MM/DD/YYYY format
*Disclaimer* - I am not very experienced with scripting, and chose to go with JavaScript as I do have some previous past experience.
Here is what I have for my code right now:
if (DropDownList1.rawValue == 1){
TextField1.rawValue = "2 Days";
var AddDate = (Date.valueOf(CurrentDate) + (2*1000*60*60*24));
DateField1.formattedValue = Date(AddDate);
else if (DropDownList1.rawValue == 2){
TextField1.rawValue = "1 Day";
else if (DropDownList1.rawValue == 3){
TextField1.rawValue = "2 Days";
else if (DropDownList1.rawValue == 4){
TextField1.rawValue = "2 Days";
else if (DropDownList1.rawValue == 5){
TextField1.rawValue = "4 Days";
else if (DropDownList1.rawValue == 6){
TextField1.rawValue = "5 Days";
else if (DropDownList1.rawValue == 7){
TextField1.rawValue = "4 Day";
The end result is that the TextField1 displays the correct day, but the DateField1 displays a long string of the exact time and date of... well, the time - so no adding takes place. What I need is for the date to be displayed as MM/DD/YYYY. What am I doing wrong? I've only added the calculation to the first "if" statement, and will continue on to the rest once it is functioning.

Answer 1

The following code will work in a LiveCycle Designer button using the "JavaScript" language option:
var oNow = new Date(); // get date time object
console.show(); // oepn and clear the JavaScript console
console.clear();
console.println("oNow = " + oNow);
console.println("oNow.getFullYear() = " + oNow.getFullYear());
console.println("oNow.getMonth() = " + oNow.getMonth());
console.println("oNow.getDate() = " + oNow.getDate());
console.println("oNow.getDay() = " + oNow.getDay());
console.println("oNow.getHours() = " + oNow.getHours());
console.println("oNow.getMinutes() = " + oNow.getMinutes());
console.println("oNow.getSeconds() = " + oNow.getSeconds());
console.println("oNow.getTimezoneOffset() = " + oNow.getTimezoneOffset());
The following script uses FormCalc and can be used with a button for testing:
var oDate = Date() // get today's date
var Year = Num2Date(oDate, "YYYY") // get year four digits
var Month = Num2Date(oDate, "MM") // get month 2 digits with leading zero
var Date = Num2Date(oDate, "D") // get date without leading zero
xfa.host.messageBox( Concat("oDate: ", oDate, " Year: ", Year, " Month: ", Month, " Date: ", Date) )
var MyDate = "Feb 23, 2008" // a string data
var Year = Num2Date( Date2Num(MyDate, "MMM D, YYYY"), "YY" ) // 2 digit year
var Month = Num2Date( Date2Num(MyDate, "MMM D, YYYY"), "M" ) // month without leading zero
var Date = Num2Date( Date2Num(MyDate, "MMM D, YYYY"), "DD" ) // day with leading zero
xfa.host.messageBox( Concat("MyDate: ", MyDate, " Year: ", Year, " Month: ", Month, " Date: ", Date) )