I know this is an old posting, but I’m trying to get your code to work and I guess I don’t understand it completely. Could you please send me a complete code sample including getElementByID and the call to getField? I’m a beginner with JavaScript and when I try to use the code above, I keep getting errors or null values — I’m sure my syntax is wrong and I just need a little help. Thank you for any help and time you can offer.

Maggie

I am having trouble implementing your code above. I’d like to read a sharepoint field into my javascript for redirecting a page after X seconds – X being the number in a SharePoint number field called Number. If i bypass reading the field into the javascript, this works fine, so i must not be referencing it properly. Below is my code:

function getField(fieldType,fieldTitle) {
var docTags = document.getElementsByTagName(fieldType);
for (var i=0; i < docTags.length; i++) {
if (docTags[i].title == fieldTitle) {
return docTags[i]
}
}
}

var initial = getField('input','Number').value
var redirect = initial*1000

setTimeout('location.href="/sites/Collection/site/page.aspx"',redirect);

I posted the script snippet for the toggle option on the MSDN blog page but I’m short on time and have a system about to go live where Date Picker is being used for the start and end time fields in a list and users are complaining that they have to manually type the dates in.

Can you please send me a copy of the routine you used, because I’m having trouble enabling it?

Not sure you want it dumped here.
I logged in with my Google Id this time so if you want to reach me you can through that.

thanks

Then added the following lines into your function above the return:
myID_Hours = docTags[i].id+”Hours”;
myID_Minutes = docTags[i].id+”Minutes”;

This lets me reference the Hour/Minute field with getElementByID

I hope this helps someone else. Drove me nutes.

My problem is that the Date/Time fields are one field with a single Title but separate Id’s. I can modify the date part of the field no problem, it’s accessing the Hours/Minutes that is giving me grief. Everything I find will only work with Titles.

Is there a way to set the value of the field based on the ID? I know SP adds the page information to the front of the field ID’s which makes it difficult to pick them out to set them.

Thanks.