Date Field Plugin

Provides support for a new type, date, in form fields. When a form field is set to this type it will no longer be editable by normal means, but only through a date selection popup.

WARNING: TWiki-4 only. If you want to use this plugin with an earlier version of TWiki, please see here

Usage

In a form definition, enter date where you would normally put text . For example:

| Birthday | date | 0 | 1 April 2004 | A date |

This will display an uneditable text field and a date selection icon that can be clicked to use the Mishoo Javascript calendar widget to insert a date. The size field is ignored.

If you want to use Javascript to create other data types in form fields, you can use this plugin as a model of how to do it.

Settings

Description:
Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Adds a date type to forms
#Set DATEFORMAT = %d %b %Y
- Format changed to make it sortable in TWiki tables. To get the old Format like "3 April 2005" set DATEFORMAT to '%e %B %Y'

See JS Calendar Contrib for additional settings.

Plugin Installation Instructions

Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
Unzip DateFieldPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

File: Description:

%$MANIFEST%

Optionally, run DateFieldPlugin_installer to automatically check and install other TWiki modules that this module depends on. You can also do this step manually.
Alternatively, manually make sure the dependencies listed in the table below are resolved. %$DEPENDENCIES%
(Dakar) Visit configure in your TWiki installation, and enable the plugin in the {Plugins} section.

Plugin Info

Author:	TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie http://www.c-dot.co.uk
Version:	%$VERSION%
Copyright ©:	2004 Deutsche Bank AG
License:	http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html^?
Change History:
7265	Item180 removed pointless, outdated dependency check from Date Field Plugin
6653	Item196 removed spurious documentation. JS Calendar Contrib is now used, and there is no longer any plugin-specific setup for the calendar
5958	Item180 modernised Date Field Plugin, and made mklinks.sh link in contribs. Also added a copy option, for people like Anton who want to make local dists for upload to remote servers
5451	Initial revision
03 Jan 2005	1.001 make outputformat configurable; changed standard format to sortable dates
9 Dec 2004	1.000 initial version
Dependencies:	%$DEPENDENCIES%
Home:	TWiki:Plugins/DateFieldPlugin
Feedback:	TWiki:Plugins/DateFieldPluginDev