How to insert current date variable into a "customised certificate slide".

That's for the info!

Is it possible to have the date locked base on when their quiz was completed?

Use Matthew's code.

If you mean print year day month, change this line:

var date= dd+' '+m_names[mm]+', '+yyyy

to this:

var date= yyyy+' '+dd+' '+m_names[mm]

or year month day, change it to:

var date= yyyy+' '+m_names[mm]+', '+dd

If you want print the year before this year, change this line:

var yyyy = today.getFullYear();

to this:

var yyyy = today.getFullYear()-1;

Hi everyone,

I have used this javascript for other instances in my courses, but I'm wondering if I could change it to show the year prior? For example for copyrights, we need to update all to 2020 and If I could create a script to auto-populate the year prior to the current day. Any tips how to do that? TIA! 

Hi Everyone,

This is a very helpful thread. I was able to correctly add the system date to a certificate I created. However, it appears the user has the ability to edit the date on the certificate slide. Does anyone know how to prevent this? Thank you! 

It worked, Matthew! You are amazing! Thank you so much!

That is great, but I don't know Javascript well enough to make it into the Date Month Year format. For example, 14 March, 1962.

I have moved the quotes all around, but I'm not sure which goes where and after 9 tries, I am giving up.

Please help!

Wow!  This is terrific!! THANKS!

Thanks for the update John :) Glad you were able to get that sorted.

Hi Ashley,

Thank you for the additional info.  Very helpful!  I had published -- the problem was a typo.

I edited the JavaScript as follows so I could extract the current year which we need for a new corporate standard.

var currentTime = new Date()
var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1
var day = currentTime.getDate()
var year = currentTime.getFullYear()
var dateString=month + "/" + day + "/" + year
var player = GetPlayer();
player.SetVar("SystemDate",dateString);
player.SetVar("month",month);
player.SetVar("day",day);
player.SetVar("year",year);

Thank you,

John

Hi John,

Did you publish and upload to your web server or LMS? Testing Javascript locally is one of the known causes for it to not work, and you may want to take a look at the information here in regards to the Javascript best practices as it's not something our team can offer support for.