JQuery Datepicker Control

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11/26/2010 2:52:02 PM
davidgdean
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JQuery Datepicker Control

I have started implementing the new jquery datepicker control and have a couple of questions.

1) I see that if you set enabled to false you disable the text box but still allow users to update the date. That is the behavior I want, but unfortunately is applies the disabled style to the button, so it may be confusing to the user. Any way to get the text box to be disabled but have the calendar launch whenever someone clicks the text box?

2) How do I set the time interval? I would like mine to be every 15 minutes and remove the time slider. Are there options for this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

11/26/2010 8:17:21 PM
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Re: JQuery Datepicker Control

I looked into this further. Unfortunately, the time increments and slider are hardcoded into the js file. So direct modification of the js file is needed to allow for different times.

Also, setting enable to false prevents correctly reading the value after postback. The better way is to update the jDatePicker.cs file and change the showOn value in the setup script from 'button' to both - this makes the calendar popup upon entry into the text field. Although users can still change the text and cause it to fail validation. So you also need to change the constrainInput to 'True.' This prevents users from entering text into the textbox and forces them to use the calendar and date control.

Hope this helps.

 

 

11/27/2010 5:49:05 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: JQuery Datepicker Control

Hi David,

If you get the latest code I've exposed a few more properties on jDatePicker.cs to allow you to configure the showOn, constrainInput, and also it is now possible to configure an image for the button.

However, I kept the default behavior as it was. One problem with using showOn=both and/or constrainInput=true is that it does not allow you to leave the field blank like when you have a begin date and end date and you want to leave end date blank so there is no end date.

So we need to use it in a variety of situations in mojoPortal and the default settings are designed to make it meet those diverse needs. We are also somewhat constrained by our DatePicker wrapper control and provider model that allows plugging in different date pickers, this makes us have to use a common api exposing only the most common date picker properties on the control and it is difficult to expose all the various properties of a particular underlying datepicker. In your custom features you can of course use the jDatePicker.cs directly instead of using our wrapper control so you can have more control over properties available on the control.

Best,

Joe

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