Is it possible to set an input's "value" as a variable from another cell?

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It’s very possible I am screwing up something simple here, but is something like workable?

viewof minChartDate = date({
title: “Minimum date”,
min: d3.min(myArray, d => d.date),
max: new Date(),
value: d3.min(myArray, d => d.date)
})

If so, it might be helpful to include an example in the inputs documentation, for fools like me.

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Could you link to your notebook? Setting value from another cell is working fine for me:

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Ah. Thanks for the example. The difference is that you are using date strings and I am using date objects. Your strings appear to be working, and my objects appear to be not.

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Ah, yeah, that would do it. I tried Date objects first as well. FWIW you can easily convert a Date object into that format with dateObj.toISOString().slice(0, 9).

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I’d be careful about using date.toISOString, since that will format the dates in UTC time rather than local time; that might give you the wrong date.

Here’s a function that will format a date as required by HTML:

You can also use d3-time-format:

format = d3.timeFormat("%Y-%m-%d")
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Thanks for the remedial education. I needed it here.

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