Current Date in XML View

[former_member227913]

Hi Experts.

I was developing my first view in UI5 a while ago and I did it using JavaScript.

As soon as I was enjoying it I started to look for best practices and patterns and started to develop in XML.

My first view had two fields that were populated by two oDatas, one with months and the other with years and in Javascript I was able to filter it using some functions and populate the two field with the current month and year.

I want to know how to do it in XML.

Thanks,

[sebastianraemsch · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I also don´t know a way to directly do this in the XML view. I think this it is not possible.

However you can set a model in the controller:

var oModel = new sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel({currentMonth : new Date().getMonth()});
this.getView().setModel(oModel);

and then bind a field in the view to that model:

<Text text="{/currentMonth}"/>

The same you can do for the current year.

This worked for me.

Best regards,

Sebastian

[former_member227913 · Accepted solution]

Hi Sebastian. Thanks for your answer it helped me a lot but unfortunately I still have issues.

I can display in my dropdownbox the current month and year but I want to display all the others years and months too.

I have an OData with them so basically I want to display at first the current date but should be able to change it.

Thanks a lot.

[junwu · Accepted solution]

don't know how to use dropdown in xml view?

[former_member227913 · Accepted solution]

I know, my problem is to call an OData with a list of values and show all of them but the first one is the current month or year

[junwu · Accepted solution]

i don't see the problem, call the odata in your controller, model binding is done in the xml view.

where you stuck?

[former_member227913 · Accepted solution]

I cant make my view to read my OData on the controller and display it.
It just shows me the current value.

[junwu · Accepted solution]

man, code please.

if you load the data in controller, why you view cannot get it?

[junwu]

do the same in your controller

it is not in the xml.