Syntax Help @date xpages

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I am having trouble adjusting to the xpages syntax. Can someone point me to some resources that might help me get a better understanding of the syntax for xpages.

At this time I am trying to get a date field to default to the current date. If anyone could help me out here I would appreciate it.

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Subject: For now the Designer Help is the best resource…

In the meantime a basic rule of thumb is that for @Functions most semi-colons are replaced by commas when used in XPages. And that @Functions in XPages must comply with javascript.

So, how to get today’s date into a field.

Here I have a Date field bound to a data source. I’ve also have a convertor for Date…

<xp:inputText id="inputText1" value="#{document1.Date}">

	<xp:this.converter>

		<xp:convertDateTime type="date"></xp:convertDateTime>

	</xp:this.converter>

</xp:inputText>

Now I don’t want to have to put in today’s date all the time so I’ll put in default value like so…

<xp:inputText id="inputText1" value="#{document1.Date}">

	<xp:this.converter>

		<xp:convertDateTime type="date"></xp:convertDateTime>

	</xp:this.converter>

	<xp:this.defaultValue><![CDATA[#{javascript:var d = @Now();

return @Date(d)}]]></xp:this.defaultValue>

</xp:inputText>

Here I’m using …

var d = @Now();

return @Date(d)

…as you would in Notes more or less.