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BrannonkBrannonk 

How to Format Date or Date time in Visualforce Object query?

I have been trying to use the new Visualforce Object for some basic javascript functions, but have a tough time using a retrieve with a date clause.

example sniplet :
var c = new SObjectModel.Campaign(); c.retrieve(function(){return({ limit : 100, where: {StartDate: { gt: '2014-12-31' }}});}, function (err, records) { if (err) { console.log(err); } else {


I have formatted the date in miliseconds, utc string (2014-12-31T23:59:59Z), and a few others. So far always get ther error:
"Error: Error occurred while performing RETRIEVE operation on sobject: Campaign with data: {limit=100, where={StartDate={gt=2014-12-31}}} (INVALID_FIELD: type, id FROM Campaign WHERE StartDate > '2014-12-31' LIMIT 100 ^ ERROR at Row:1:Column:81 value of filter criterion for field 'StartDate' must be of type date and should not be enclosed in quotes)"

I have tried it for other objects that have DateTime formats ( ie CreatedDate ) wit the same problems.
Has anyone solved this? Maybe us moment.js to set a specific format?

Thanks for your help!
 
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Philip NelsonPhilip Nelson
I can't confirm whether this works, but try creating a date object:

var day = new Date(2014, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59, 59);

Then include that in your JSON retrieve request.

If that doesn't work, try passing in day.getTime().
 

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Philip NelsonPhilip Nelson
Brannonk, it looks like you end up having quotes around the dateTime literal in the submitted query string, which isn't permitted. Otherwise, your dateTime formatted as 2014-12-31T23:59:59Z should work fine.
BrannonkBrannonk
Thanks Philip!
Do you know to pass the javascript string so that there are no quotes? I tried this and quotes are still added automatically:
var day = "2014-12-31T23:59:59Z";
var c = new SObjectModel.Campaign(); c.retrieve(function(){return({ limit : 100, where: {StartDate: { gt: day }}});}, function (err, records) { if (err) { console.log(err); } else {
 
Philip NelsonPhilip Nelson
I can't confirm whether this works, but try creating a date object:

var day = new Date(2014, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59, 59);

Then include that in your JSON retrieve request.

If that doesn't work, try passing in day.getTime().
 
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BrannonkBrannonk
thank you!
Here is what I got working (with some date math help from moment.js)

var tdy = moment();
var day = tdy.subtract(3, 'months');
                     var c = new SObjectModel.Campaign();
                        c.retrieve(function(){return({ limit : 100, where: {StartDate: { gte: day.format("YYYY[-]MM[-]DD[T]HH[:]mm[:]ss") }}});},
                         function (err, records) {