How to get a string value of a date field?

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I would like to save a record in a collection with the combination of a text field and a date field in the _id field.
Both following syntax don’t work:
“_id”: $w(“#input9”).value + $w(“#datePicker1”).value,
“_id”: $w(“#input9”).value + toString( $w(“#datePicker1”).value),

How I can get the string value of the date field?

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Hi,

The id field has to be unique, and its automatically generated by wix each time new record inserted. if you want to make your own id ( I dont recomend your combination for the id because there is a chance it will not be unique and ID is usually unique for each record ), create new field then it should work. So, your code should look something like this :

export function button(event) {
 let x = $w("#input").value;
 let y = $w("#datePicker").value;
 let toInsert = {
 "title": x + y
};

wixData.insert("datasetName", toInsert)
  .then( (results) => {
 let item = results; //see item below
  } )
  .catch( (err) => {
 let errorMsg = err;
  } );

}

Hope this helps!
Best,

Mustafa

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Thank’s for your help. I will try it because I’m on a study stage of WIX capabilities and I’m curious to see if WIX allows “+” operator on fields originating from different types.
Actually, I must have a unique key, but I need to be able to know what the key is, in order to retrieve the data in others forms, reports, etc… in later stages.
On the meantime, I founded the below similar solution and it’s work:
“_id”: $w(“#input1”).value + Date.parse($w(“#datePicker1”).value),
Thank You.