I don't want to allow a user to enter a date that is before January 2014

Question

I don't want to allow a user to enter a date that is before January 2014. I want to restrict users from entering a date that is or prior to December 31, 2013 in a date field. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Seems like it is a little more complicated just to create a new Date() object in livecycle...
the way I found to create a new Date() object is using the dateTimeEdit pattern to be 'date{EEEE, MMMM D, YYYY}'
then u can create a new Date
var date1 = new Date(DateTimeField1.editValue);
date1.getTime();
or
you can also click the following link and download the pdf from the blog...
Adobe LiveCycle Designer Cookbooks by BR001: Date handling in Livecycle Designer ES forms
using XFADate object make it easy to manipulate dates with javascript
The XFADate object created by BR001 is very good but to be able to see if a date is prior to another date you can just add this function in the object script..
you can add that function at line 200...
that.isPriorTo = function(date) {
     var toDate = newDate(date);
     if (isNaN(this) || isNaN(toDate)){
          return false;
     } else{
          var interval = this.getTime() - toDate.getTime();
          if (interval > 0){
               return false;
          } else{
               return true;
To use that function above you can just use this code:
if (XFADate.newDate(dateFrom).isPriorTo(DateTo)){
     //dateFrom is prior to dateTo
hope this help