# Inital value for DateField/DateChooser

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inital-value-for-datefield-datechooser/151769>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 17, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inital-value-for-datefield-datechooser/151769 "2005-06-17T22:54:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![klausli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@klausli](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/klausli)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inital-value-for-datefield-datechooser/151769/1 "2005-06-17T22:54:45Z")

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Hi

I have the following problem:

I read a date from a database into Flash and want to display it with DateField or DateChooser, so that the user can change it. Or with other words I want to intialize the component with an initial date (the user shall be able to change a delivery date for goods).

Getting a choosen date with _DateField_.selectedDate is not a problem, but the other way round, set \*DateField.\*selectedDate to a specific value does not work.

Can somebody help me?

regards

Peter