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i want to show a message to the user if the value of a field enetered (in my case, “delivery date”) matches today’s date. i am setting the value of today’s date in a workflow field but am struggling with the condition on when to show the message. any thoughts?

<@U2AFFF3UP> I was doing something sort of similar and also had trouble with the conditions, since I had a couple of things going on in addition to that.  In the end, I created a saved search and used the saved search condition to say when to fire the action.  I ended up really liking that tack, because I could go run the search (and change certain conditions) and see exactly what results I'd get in that scenario without having to go through a full test of the workflow.

Also, FWIW I hate workflow fields and almost never use them anymore.  There's not great visibility into them, and since you can only use them inside the workflow it means you can't build other stuff like searches, scripting, etc. on top using that information.  Now I always just make a regular field on the record and hide/disable/restrict it from most users as needed.

<@UAC8528QK> yep fair enough! i’m testing on a client-side field though so a saved search won’t work for me. i’m really just wanting to detect of today’s date = my custom field date then throw a message to the user

It should be noted - client side fields require javascript conditions