How to Pull Current Date in Articulate Storyline [Using JavaScript]

[@felicial7628]

This video has been incredibly helpful! I have been struggling to learn JavaScript. And, this is my first time being able to 'read' code. AND, I can't tell you how many times I have tried to do this unsuccessfully. SUBSCRIBED!

[@LearningDojo]

Glad it helped! That makes me happy to hear. I am planning on more JS and Storyline videos so stay tuned.

[@bluegrasslearningsolutions]

Great tutorial. Thank you for sharing the code and walking through your thought process.

[@LearningDojo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@michelleej]

I love the tip about using the grid paper, then changing it later!

[@LearningDojo]

Awesome!

[@DannyWoodMusic]

Thanks Jeff! This is exactly what I needed for a project I'm working on.

[@LearningDojo]

Awesome! Happy to help Danny

[@Kanaxtheic]

Very nice! Thanks for this video.

[@LearningDojo]

Glad you liked it!

[@JulieTaylor-d4r]

Hi Jeff, this is great thank you, I am confused though as to what type of variable I need to select in SL to allow date to be collected?

[@LearningDojo]

Text variable should be the one.

[@fiveironscott]

Hey Jeff, it seems I could feasibly send SCORM files to clients and let them know they must renew a contract they by a certain date and put a reminder and an execution date in my file via this method.

[@LearningDojo]

Yeah maybe add a redirect based on the date.

[@isabellelemarchal]

Many thanks !

[@LearningDojo]

You are welcome!

[@luisrobles943]

Hey there, great video as usual. I was wondering if you can show how to set up a timer. I’m thinking this could be useful for a bunch of compliance courses. Thanks!

[@LearningDojo]

Luis - I have a timer example in the pipeline. So stay tuned and you will see a video about it.

[@rossiboy1962]

Thanks Jeff, this is exactly what i needed. Am new to the use of JavaScript in Articulate so I can me myself using your content a lot more. We are also looking to push results of a test out to training staff via an outlook email. Is this something you could help with or direct us to please ?

[@LearningDojo]

You could connect using something like Zapier to do something like that. It is a tool to help automations.

[@RaviKumar-je2np]

Can i call course completion Date to Storyline so that i can display the same in the Certificate..

[@LearningDojo]

Completion is recorded but pulling the date may require the LMS API. Not sure would have to do some digging.

[@radiusvsl457]

Can we add no. Of time visited in this code

[@LearningDojo]

Like how many times a user comes back to the course? Is the house in an LMS?

[@billhaf]

Good video! I would like to pull up the month as text though. How would I do that?

[@LearningDojo]

So basically you would just pass in the "month" variable as the variable in Storyline. That way it just gives you the number of the month and then display that on a page. Does that help?

[@YouTubeVanced-xc6te]

Hi, I tried your approach but what if I want the month in MM format? Like for example for month March it returns only '3' how do I get '03'

[@LearningDojo]

You might have to add the 0 manually. So have a condition that does the following. if (month

[@YouTubeVanced-xc6te]

@@LearningDojo thank you!

[@jigglypuff8391]

This isn't working for me. I've set up two variables in storyline, one named month and one named todaysDate. They are both text variables. Then I have a text box reading %month% and another reading %todaysDate%. They are spelled the same as the variable in the javascript. I have a trigger that says: when user clicks this rectangle, execute javascript, where I've copied and pasted this code. Yet when I publish this in review 360, nothing happens when I click the rectangle. What am I missing?

[@LearningDojo]

Hard to say, most of the time I need to take a look at the code exactly. Can you email me your example? [e-mail]

[@cashmonet1]

This worked great for displaying the current date... I want to lock out the final test for 24 hours if they fail. I've got everything in place and am using the top pull the system date, but the part I can't figure out is how to check if the current date is at least 24 hours AFTER the date when they failed... I imagine this should be possible but my java skills aren't good enough.

[@LearningDojo]

Hmm, I am not sure how to lock out the quiz though. Are you talking about disabling the Storyline button that allows them to retake the quiz for 24 hours? You might have to have a variable but the problem is keeping that in place after they close the course. That may have to use like a LMS storage or something. Might be beyond what I have ever done as well.

[@cashmonet1]

@@LearningDojo I think I figured it out doing something similar to your months, capturing a variable called "failday" = day, "failmonth" = month, "failyear" = year, and then changing the state of a button when the timeline starts if "failday" < day etc... everything is working as intended, but I need to wait for tomorrow when the system day changes to confirm... if it works I'll post a sample on the storyline forums and update you here. You're video and the month thing was the first steps... resume state appears to only work correctly as a separate storyline file, not when imbedded in rise.

[@LearningDojo]

@@cashmonet1 Sorry for the delay but curious of that worked.

[@RaviKumar-je2np]

Hi... Jeff... Can you please give me this links of this page of ur web page.. So that u can copy code..

[@LearningDojo]

It is here learningdojo.ninja/blog/pull_date_into_storyline.html

[@mindgulag]

Thanks a million, Jeff. This has helped me a lot. I've managed to successfully pull the date and add the 0 before the (single digit( months (September). I've run into a complex problem, however: I've tried to push that storyline line variable (todaysDate) into a certificate (PDF) that already has a learner name in it. Unfortunately, it's not working. I've tried changing the text variable to a string, but that also didn't do the trick. Do you have any ideas about what I might do? Thanks a million!

[@LearningDojo]

Hmm, can you email me the exact code you are using? Wondering if it is a syntax error. [e-mail]

[@mindgulag]

@@LearningDojo Hi. Thanks a lot for your response! I'm ashamed to admit it but it was a trivial error. I had forgotten to add one small element which caused the entire code to fail. ChatGPT was able to debug it, heh. So it's all good and working. Thanks a lot!

[@LearningDojo]

@@mindgulagGreat use of ChatGPT! Yeah I have been there too. I spent hours once trying to debug code and it turned out to be a small syntax error. Welcome to coding 😁