Web and WebWorks Development

[rsmerker]

I am unable to get the Date comparisons to work correctly for FilterExpressions when consumed by a blackberry.pim.Appointment.find() on any OS 6 Device.  They just dont work.  Here is the code, taken nearly exactly from the API samples :

var date = new Date();
 var filter = new blackberry.find.FilterExpression("start", ">=", date);
 var appts = blackberry.pim.Appointment.find(filter);

This code will never find an appointment, but you take off the comparison, or negate it, and it finds them.  OS 5 works great.  Can anyone confirm that, or better yet have any workarounds?   Thanks!

[yoohoo]

I have exactly the same problem too. What gives???

All this time I thought I was crazy and smoking something (I was I was)

[rsmerker]

I am glad I am not alone.  It is a bit painful to deal with, right now I have to basically give it a filter to return everything, then iterate through the whole set to find the items I need, which isnt efficient.

Can anyone else state thier experience with this?  I dont see it as a known problem that is being worked, so I dont have faith that it would be fixed in the upcoming Webworks release....

I suppose we should just take this to our corporate RIM rep, or open a ticket......

[yoohoo]

Just talked to a Rep and they will have a new release out with WebWorks very soon. The fix that we're both looking for is in there.

[rsmerker]

Nothing as of yet - the new Tablet Webworks API is out, but nothing on the Smartphone one.  Anyone have even a workaround for this that doesnt involve manually parsing the array?  We have an app that blows up if people have a large number of appointments because we have to load them all into a Javascript array and parse them....

[rsmerker · Accepted solution]

This problem is fixed with the Webworks 2.0 API for Smartphones - Filter works like a champ!