How do I populate sequential dates from a date entered in a form field.

Question

I have  a document in a new employee packet that uses a populated date but also needs to have the previous 6 days populated in adjacent fields.  For example, the populated date is 2/13/2015, the adjacent fields must populate 2/12/2015, 2/11/2015, 2/10/2015, 2/9/2015, 2/8/2015, and 2/7/2015 Based off the 2/13/2015 date.  How would I go about doing this, I am assuming is is a custom script that I would adjust the variables on, but I am limited in my understanding of actually writing the script.
I do learn how to do these things once I have a solid script to work from, this is just a new concept for me to wrap my head around.

Answer 1

Yes, it requires custom JavaScript. One needs to convert the date string to the JavaScript date object and then use the various date object date methods to adjust the date object.
var cDate = "2/13/2015"; // date value to process;
var oDate = util.scand("m/d/yyyy", cDate); // convert to date object;
console.println(oDate);
for (var i = 1; i  > -5; i--) {
oDate.setDate(oDate.getDate() - 1); // decrement the date value by 1 day;
console.println(oDate);