Need Javascript to get Day of week back to Lectora

By the way, this is a question, not a tip, and would be better suited in the questions and answers forum for the future. ;-)

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Thanks Math.

I tried to set up an action

OnShow

Modify Variable "LectoraDay"

Value: Javascript:WeekDay()

and then wrote the External HTML Object:

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but I'm not successful...Am I doing the right thing?

"n" is supposed to return the numerical day of the week.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this is really appreciated.

Thanks Math.

if your variable in Lectora is called 'myLectoraVariable'... you can set that variable from Javascript by

VarmyLectoraVariable.set("some value or string you want to pass");

When you download eg. my setup http://community.trivantis.com/shared-content/moving-with-variables/

In the Javascript file you find that syntax too... ...eg: Varpos4X.set(posCross4.offsetLeft);

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Main thing to remember is Lectora passes all values as strings.

~Math

You'll have to use a little JavaScript to convert the returned getDay index to the actual name of the weekday. In this example I have a Lectora variable called "whatDay". This can be written more elegantly but it works.

var daysOfTheWeek = ["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"];

today = new Date();

thisDay=today.getDay();

thisDay=daysOfTheWeek[thisDay];

VarwhatDay.set(thisDay);

undefinedThe language attribute was deprecated somewhere in 2008, I believe.

You also might want to learn about parseInt.

Quick tip: Add alerts on specific points in your script... either by showing a Lectora message or using console.log("blablaba") or alert("blablabla"). This way you often find errors in your logic....