Text field for date entry

Dustin,

Currently, Orbeon Forms automatically show a calendar for date input. We are not happy about this, but there is currently no option to also have a text field in addition. See this RFE:

 http://forge.objectweb.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=306172&group_id=168&atid=350207

Your example doesn't work in part because an element or attribute can only have one type. XForms in fact makes it illegal to bind two types to the same element or attribute, and we should probably raise an exception in that case.

If you want to achieve this without changing the Orbeon Forms code, you will have to do more work. Your input field will have to be bound to another element or attribute in the instance. You will then have to copy data back and forth between the two places, for example by reacting to xforms-value-changed and using xforms:setvalue.

Ideally, again, this would be a built-in feature. We also hope that once we have our component system setup, this kind of things will be much easier:

 https://wiki.objectweb.org/ops/Wiki.jsp?page=XFormsComponents

-Erik

Hi Dustin

Have you managed to implement this control? I have been trying to address this issue from my end so far, with not much success.

 

thanks

ilango

 

On 11/28/07, Dustin Henson <[hidden email]> wrote:

I have a newbi question about date fields in xforms. I'm sure there is an easy way to do this, but it is escaping me. I've been asked to add a text field next to a date button allowing the user to type the date OR use the calendar button to set it. Initially I tried adding a second binding to the date node like this:

<xforms:bind id="IncidentDateBind"
             type="xs:date"
             nodeset="instance('default-instance')/IncidentDate"
             required="(instance('config-instance')/IncidentDate = 1)"/>
<xforms:bind id="IncidentDateTextBind"
             type="xs:string"
             nodeset="instance('default-instance')/IncidentDate"
             required="(instance('config-instance')/IncidentDate = 1)"/>

However, it seems the type in the second binding overwrites the type info in the first causing both inputs to show a text.

I see calendar buttons next to date text fields all over the web so I'm sure there's a way. Can anyone point me to an example of how to do this?

Thanks,
Dustin

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