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I have been trying the below code without any success. Then schema name of the field is 'cei_name'.

Any thoughts on what I'm missing here or alternate code recommendations? Thanks

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function name()

{ var now = new Date();

if (crmForm.all.cei_name.DataValue==null)

{

crmForm.all.cei_name.DataValue=(now.toString());

}

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ScottDurow 23 on at

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You should use:

var nameAttribute=Xrm.Page.getAttribute('cei_name');

var currentValue = nameAttribute.getValue();

if ( currentValue== null || currentValue == '')

nameAttribute.setValue(now.toString());

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Thanks Scott. Here is the code I'm using (yours that I had to alter a bit to get working). I need to format this date to a YYYY-MM as I am getting an int. Any thoughts on that?

function namefill()

{ var nameAttribute = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("cei_name");

var currentValue = nameAttribute.getValue();
{
if ( currentValue == null || currentValue == '')

nameAttribute.setValue(Date.now.toString());

}

}

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Kalim Khan 25 on at

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Are you trying to set he current time? Try below

var currentdate = new Date().toLocaleTimeString().toString();

nameAttribute.setValue(currentdate);

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ManirajKV 1,477 on at

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Hi,

Get the value of a Date field.

Please refer the below link:

intersection3.com/.../dynamics-crm-2015-javascript-reference

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I am trying to take the string value I generated by the code above (this works, it writes to he cei_name field) and convert that to a YYYY-MM format by adding to that code.

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This works:

function namefill()

{ var nameAttribute = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("cei_name");

var currentValue = nameAttribute.getValue();

{

if ( currentValue == null || currentValue == '')

var today = new Date();

var mm = today.getMonth()+1;

var yyyy = today.getFullYear();

nameAttribute.setValue(yyyy + "-" + mm)

}

}

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