Date Variables available?

Hi Raymond,

Although Articulate does not provide support for JavaScript coding in the Execute JavaScript trigger, you can accomplish that by using the example in the link below:

http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=st1&id=llwes8cn32vg

Hey Brian, thanks for the tip....

I'm not too familiar with Java though...i've tried reviewing your job aids but can't get a date to appear on a slide.

Any way you could take a moment to walk me through it? 

Do I need to have a trigger in place in order to have a date appear on the slide?

Apologies....

Hi Raymond,

Here's a quick example:

https://player.vimeo.com/video/145576537

Hey Brian - thanks for whipping that up together quickly!

I was so close  before you sent that.  I had the wrong variable name input and didnt' match it with what was in the code.

Thanks so much again!

Ray

I've been thinking of a simple way of inserting an expiry date into a standalone presentation (I mean one that is not within an LMS).

Example application - if I made a sample presentation and emailed it out, but I wanted to prevent it being viewed past a certain date.

 I haven't come across any way yet, so I wonder if this method could be used to do that - by coding in the 'currentdevelopment date' into the javascript that Brian demonstrated....and then if I only wanted the presentation to be viewable for the next 2 months say, I would make a sum that took the 'user system date' minus 60, and if it was positive, jump to a branch that ended the presentation (as it was being viewed more than 2 months in the future).

Does that sort of make sense? Sorry, if I've missed a really simple way of achieving the same thing - just haven't found a way yet!

Cheers

This solution was great! When I tested it on IE 7, I got the output I expected. 

However when I tested in Chrome and in Firefox the variable did not display, just a blank space.

Any ideas on the difference?

thanks-

Claudine 

I am also having trouble with getting the script to work on IE8.  I copied it exactly as in the example.  Is there something I should change?

Hi All,

It doesn't work in all browsers. Perhaps it can with a tweak, but by default it doesn't work in Firefox (version 18) and DOES work in IE (version 9)

Working with Javascript also required some Flash security settings when running it on a local machine:

Berno, That did the trick.  I had seen this before with "Print Results".  I couldn't test it on my local computer before posting to our website, but once posted it worked.  Thank you so much!  Now I can test these things before I post.

Steve