To Execute this Example
| Select a Start and End Date from a Calendar | The Things that Make Up this Example | Before You Execute Web Functions |
Open a browser session.
In the address entry field of the browser type:
http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:xx/CGI-BIN/LANSAWEB?PROCFUN+set_171+set171b+ppp
where
Click on the Select Date button.
Select a Start Date, select an End Date.
Notes and suggestions
You can return dates in any format of your choice. The formats are described at the top of the Calendar’s Java Script code. The format is a parameter that is passed to the Calendar when clicking on the Select Date button. To change the format, locate this line of HTML in the SET171B:
<TD><A HREF="JavaScript:createCalendar(160,170,443,351,4, 'SSTARTDATE',4, 'STERMDATE')"><IMG SRC="<RDML MERGE ="*LW3SETCALENDAR">" ALT="Select a Start and End Date." BORDER=0></A></TD>
Look carefully at the parameters passed to createCalendar: (160,170,443,351,4, 'SSTARTDATE',4, 'STERMDATE')
http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:xx/CGI-BIN/LANSAWEB?PROCFUN+set_171+set171b+ppp
where
| nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn | is the IP address of the web server you are connecting to |
| xx | is the port number where your web server has been configured to run. If your web server uses the default port 80, this parameter is not required. |
| ppp | is the partition identifier of the partition where you imported the material |
Click on the Select Date button.
Select a Start Date, select an End Date.
Notes and suggestions
You can return dates in any format of your choice. The formats are described at the top of the Calendar’s Java Script code. The format is a parameter that is passed to the Calendar when clicking on the Select Date button. To change the format, locate this line of HTML in the SET171B:
<TD><A HREF="JavaScript:createCalendar(160,170,443,351,4, 'SSTARTDATE',4, 'STERMDATE')"><IMG SRC="<RDML MERGE ="*LW3SETCALENDAR">" ALT="Select a Start and End Date." BORDER=0></A></TD>
Look carefully at the parameters passed to createCalendar: (160,170,443,351,4, 'SSTARTDATE',4, 'STERMDATE')
| 160 | is the width of calendar window in pixels |
| 170 | is the height of calendar window in pixels |
| 443 | is the position of calendar window from the top in pixels |
| 351 | is the position of calendar window from left in pixels |
| 4 | is the format of the start date to return |
| SSTARTDATE | is the start date field name prefixed with the field type S(signed). If alpha it would be prefixed with an A. |
| 4 | is the format of the end date to return |
| STERMDATE | is the end date field name prefixed with the field type S(signed). |