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Re: [EP-tech] Autofill date field button

Hi Matt,
Lizz's suggestion is the best (and the PR moves EPrints another step forwards (albeit one that it had taken a few years ago - but has subsequently forgotten about...)).

If it will *always* be the current date, I'd be tempted to do something a little bit hacky - like creating:
EPrints::Plugin::InputForm::Component::XHTML::PopulateDateButton
- which would render some JavaScript that would find the previous input component (or a named field input) and populate it - using a date rendered from the server (rather than trust someone's computer is set to the right date).

Cheers,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Matthew Brady
Sent: 13 April 2017 11:27
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Autofill date field button

Hi John and Lizz

Thanks for the feedback. .. i will see what i can try and get working over the weekend while the kids wear themselves out on sugar/chocolate binge... 

I had thought a single button would be easier to get working than a date picker... since they will always want the current date when they need to set it. ..

Cheers

Matt


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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] on behalf of Lizz Jennings [E.Jennings@bath.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, 13 April 2017 7:28 PM
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Autofill date field button

In fact EPrints should come with the pop up calendar feature as standard, but it got lost in the Master/3.3 changeover.  I have put in a pull request to get the updated functionality in (but it may not be in a good state (a file from another edit got muddled in there), I'm just not sure if anyone has even looked at it).  But I use this in production and it's good.

https://github.com/eprints/eprints/pull/438

Ignore Extras.pm - that was something else.  I wasn't able to change this at an archive level - I had to replace the Date.pm and Time.pm files in perl_lib to get it to work.  The JS and CSS files are fine in the Archive config though.

Lizz


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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Salter
Sent: 13 April 2017 09:38
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Autofill date field button

>(I talked them down from a calendar popup)
But why..?
The IRStats2 package (that it looks like you're already using) comes with a calendar date-picker - and even defaults to today!?

You could possibly even implement it using one phrase and one XHTML workflow field!

Does that help at all?

Cheers,
John


From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Matthew Brady
Sent: 13 April 2017 03:19
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: [EP-tech] Autofill date field button

Hi All,

I have been asked if it is possible to add a button to a date field within the workflow... to allow the field to be auto populated with the current date. (I talked them down from a calendar popup)

I don't need the button for every date field rendered within the workflow, only this one particular instance...

Any thoughts would be appreciated before I start hacking things too badly ;)


Cheers

Matt.



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