🐛 GeoCortex DatePicker created in RuntimeModifications returns "/Date(milliseconds)/" not System.DateTime

DatePicker created in RuntimeModifications returns System.String not System.DateTime.xaml

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I have updated the workflow to include the DisplayForm so that you can run this and see the behaviour I am getting.

The DisplayForm activity includes a DatePicker with an ArgumentName COMPLETED_DATE_STATIC and then in the RuntimeModifications Sequence activity I am creating another DatePicker form item with an ArgumentName of COMPLETED_DATE_DYNAMIC:

When you run the workflow in GeoCortex the formResults are populated with a Dictionary representing the dates specified and the type that is returned from COMPLETED_DATE_STATIC is System.DateTime, whereas the type that is returned from COMPLETED_DATE_DYNAMIC is System.String 😢

When you run this workflow in Chrome you can see that the types different and they need to be handled differently:

[info]: 10:14:08.017: Key: COMPLETED_DATE_STATIC, Value: 10/01/2017 12:00:00 AM, Type: System.DateTime
[info]: 10:14:08.178: completedDate: 1483966800000
[info]: 10:14:08.322: Key: COMPLETED_DATE_DYNAMIC, Value: /Date(1483966800000)/, Type: System.String
[info]: 10:14:08.474: completedDate: 1483966800000

I am hoping that in a future version of GeoCortex this issue will be fixed so that I can handle the dates returned by DatePicker form items in a consistent manner, regardless of whether that are defined statically on a form or dynamically via the RuntimeModifications Sequence activity. 🎉