Web and WebWorks Development

[wslfung]

I've posted this question some time ago like in September/October timeframe here

I'm still trying to open the calendar from my app to a specific date, I'm able to launch the calendar app, but unable to point the calendar app to a specific date with the following code:

blackberry.invoke.invoke({
target : "sys.pim.calendar",
action : "bb.calendar.OPEN",
data : "{'date':'Wed Jan 23 2013'}",
}, function() {
alert("success");
}, function(e) {
alert("error");
});

Am I doing something wrong?

Wilson

[neilwick]

I'm not sure what format the date has to be. Maybe

"Jan 01, 2015, 12:00"

  or even

new Date("Jan 01, 2015, 12:00")

 but

data :

definitely has to have an actual colon instead of the HTML entity for the colon, but I'm pretty sure that's what you meant, though, so it's probably the date format or something else in the data format.

[erikjohnzon]

Did you check out some of the new docs in the Cascades section? Try this out: https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/documentation/device_platform/invocation/calendar.html

Specifically: bb.calendar.VIEW section.

[wslfung]

the colon was translated by this forum. I have a proper two dot looking one in my code. I actually have read thru the doc linked and found that VIEW is opening an event. OPEN allows me to go to a specific view. I had searched and searched for webworks samples yet none is on the calendar that tells me how to something so simple. At least I thought it was.

[erikjohnzon]

Forwarded internally.

[erikjohnzon]

I got the attention of the Calendar people I will update you when I know more.

[erikjohnzon · Accepted solution]

Turns out they were hiding it from all of us. The API wasn't properly documented since we wrap it a bit different in WebWorks then they do in Cascades. Here is what worked for me, give it a shot:

blackberry.invoke.invoke({
target : "sys.pim.calendar",
action : "bb.calendar.OPEN", 
data : "?date=2012-09-24 01:01:00"
});

We will wrap this in the future to make it easier, but this will always work for you.

[wslfung]

thank you. Will try it tomorrow.

[wslfung]

works great, thanks