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Reactor will still send your date through as a text string, so you can use it anywhere in your .rct file, but you can now be sure that if your date is in fact a date, and not a string.
Data Types Available
Data Type | Description |
Text | Plain Text, stripped of any formatting. This is the default data type we use. |
Number | Number value. This works the same as FileMakers 'GetAsNumber' function. If your parameter value is 'Value 12:34.56', the number passed through to Reactor would be 1234.56 |
Date | As described in the article above. Similar to FileMakers 'GetAsDate' function. If a text or number representation of the date is passed through, you will be returned a date string in your Files localisation format. The date format will always be 'YYYY-MM-DD'. You can use the FRTB.convertDateTime function to convert this to a JavaScript Date Object. |
Time | Similar to FileMakers 'GetAsTime' function. If a text or number representation of the time is passed through, you will be returned a time string in your Files localisation format. The date format will always be 'HH:MM:SS'. You can use the FRTB.convertDateTime function to convert this to a JavaScript Date Object. |
Timestamp | Similar to FileMakers 'GetAsTimestamp' function. If a text or number representation of the timestamp is passed through, you will be returned a timestamp string in your Files localisation format. The date format will always be 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'. You can use the FRTB.convertDateTime function to convert this to a JavaScript Date Object. |
Styled Text | The Data Type 'Text' is stripped of all style formatting (Text Color, Bold, Font etc). Use this, if you want to have styled text passed through to Reactor. Similar to FileMakers 'GetAsCSS' function. The text will be passed through with span/style tags, so you can use the result of this directly in HTML code. |
Container | This Data Type will give Reactor the passed container data, and will pass through a URL which you can use directly to display the contents of the container. Very useful for images/pdf documents or other web friendly content like flash/swf. |