Hi Justin,

Did you try the date picker from jQuery Goodies component?
From the component description: "Datepicker (format it any way you want without having to match defined format in service center)"

Regards,
João Rosado

Joao -

My problem isn't what happens when the data picker selects a date; that works fine with the built-in picker. My problem is what is populated into the input field on Preparation or any other screen action.

Does the jQuery component fix that?

J.Ja

Hi Justin,

Tweaked the component demo to include a refresh with highlight. You can see it here.
(The overall sample application needs a lot of work though)

Regards,
João Rosado

Joao -

Thanks! That looks like it will do what we need it to do. I'm talking to my team to see if we can start using this one instead.

J.Ja

Hey Robbie,

Sure, next version preview demo with customizable calendars.
Still some work to be done.

Regards,
João Rosado

I'm trying to use this to display dates in the dd-M-yy format (08-May-2014) but I'm running into a couple problems.  We have a page where someone can add or edit (both via the same popup) Certifications/Licenses they hold.  There is a date the certification was obtained.  In the preparation we do a standard GetCertificationsById - if they are adding a record, we have a blank one to work with, if they are editing an existing one then we have the appropriate identifier passed to get the right record.  We then assign the GetCertificationsById.List.Current.xxx fields to the input widgets on the screen.

Whatever date I select, it is always getting stored as 01-01-1900. If I try to debug it, I get that variable is unavailable in current context.  Any idea why?

If I have a date in the field when the screen comes up for edit, it displays it in the default server format of 08-05-2014 (dd-mm-yyyy), it won't change the format until I actually select a date.

I also don't like that the prompt on the field shows up as DD-M-YYYY - how can I change that?

I can get around all of it (except the prompt issue) by using local text variables for the dates that I assign in the preparation by calling a function to convert the date to a text date in the right format.  Then on the save action I convert the text date to an actual date and assign it to the database before the InsertOrUpdate action. A lot of trouble, but if that is the requriement from the business, we will do it.

Any ideas for a cleaner way?
Cory

I've got another problem on one screen where I am using the datepicker.  The calender will popup until I select a date.  After a date has been selected, I can't get it to pop up again on that input field (unless I refresh the screen).  It isn't doing this on other screens where I am using the datepicker.

Any thoughts?
Cory

Cory -

Sounds like you are doing an Ajax Refresh on the date field widget somewhere. This will occassionally give it a new ID, so unless you also Ajax Refresh the InputCalendar widget, or Ajax Refresh something that encloses both of them, the InputCalendar widget will be pointing to the wrong ID and disconnected to the field currently on the screen.

J.Ja

THANK YOU!  That was exactly the problem.

Cory

Great, glad that did it! This applies to PopupEditor as well, that's another common one for this problem to happen on.

J.Ja