It’s very easy to define a field in a custom object in Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service to store a date, but when it comes to doing calculations and queries based on this date you’ll find that you need to resort to a little bit of JavaScript calculations.
Here are a couple of useful things to know if you are trying to do that.
Calculating Age (or time passed from a date in years)
Let’s assume you are storing information about employees and one of the pieces of information you have is their date of birth – the Birthday field in the image below.
How do you show their actual age in years on a page?
You can define a calculated field in your business object – and have VBCS use the "calculate value with formula" as the source for this field. Read the complete article here.
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