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Posted on by Daniel at VNS

I want to take Date.now and add 1 hour. This is my script:

var now2 = Date();
now2.setHours(now.getHours() + 1);
Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_todaysdate").setValue(now2);

When it executes, page says there is no function for getHours. HUH? I thought that's supported JS.

So then i tried this:

// From: stackoverflow.com/.../how-to-add-30-minutes-to-a-javascript-date-object
var now = Date.now();
var now2 = new Date(now.getTime() + 60 * 60000);
Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_todaysdate").setValue(now2);

Same type of error. Says getTime is not a function. Again, this says it is: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_gettime.asp

What am i doing wrong?

Thank you

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Hi,

you should do

var now = new Date();

and it will all work.

When you are doing Date() or Date.now() you are not getting an object of Date, you are getting a string with a date, that;s why you are getting error (because string does not have the functions you want, Date object has them)

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Thanks Pawel. Yes, that's what I have been doing and that generates the exact moment the form executes. I need to add 1 hour to that number. The form is used to determine when the Case is overdue and since CRM does not have any 'what time is it NOW' functionality OOB, this is what we need to do to work around it. However, if a user makes a change even 1 second later, then 'now' is 'overdue' and we have a problem. So i want to add 1 hour to now to give the user time to actually update the record.

I think i understand the change you've suggested. Will try it 'now' :)

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Same result. system tells me that getTime is not a function. Can't understand what I've done wrong.

var now = Date();

var now2 = new Date(now.getTime() + 60 * 60000);

Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_todaysdate").setValue(now2);

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Hi,

You did not get my answer. You did not use "new". You should do:

var now = new Date();

var now2 = new Date(now.getTime() + 60 * 60000);

Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_todaysdate").setValue(now2);

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Also the solution with setHours and getHours was a lot better, so I would also do this as in your first version of code (just use "new")

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I *completely* missed that. You're right - that did the trick.

I'm normally very good with details but learning JS is testing the limits of my attention to detail.

Thank you again Pawel.

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