Date / Time Picker -- Disable the TODAY button.

[lvasic]

Is there a way to hide or disable the TODAY button on the date / time picker? I have a high/low function so that dates can only be picked between those two dates. However, all they need to do is press TODAY to by-pass my functions.

[Davidk]

Re: Date / Time Picker -- Disable the TODAY button.

I'd try to verify the date selected instead of hiding elements... however... hiding Today if Today should not be available is kinda nice too.

When Alpha pops up anything, the element id is partially variable... the popup window number... "A5dlg0". This has a starting number of 0 for the first popup, and increments by 1 for every popup displayed.

Given your app, you never really know what your popup id will be.

If you've got just one popup this will work.

The DateTimePicker has a property... Has Events... which has an On Item Draw event. In there put datePickerHideToday.
In your Javascript functions add this...

function datePickerHideToday(){

	var datePicker = $('A5dlg0.BODY.D.DATEPICKER.TODAYBUTTON');
	if (datePicker != null){
		datePicker.style.display="none";
	}

}

If you have multiple popup windows to deal with (or could have) then you could set up a loop and loop through x number of A5dlg popups until you hit the one you want.

There is also the onSelect property. This gets the date selected and you could test against today and then do something.

[GGandhi]

Re: Date / Time Picker -- Disable the TODAY button.

how about you just remove date picker today button text, leave it blank?

http://screencast.com/t/eaFe4EyinAm
http://screencast.com/t/bgaqpHEwk

[lvasic]

Re: Date / Time Picker -- Disable the TODAY button.

Thank you! I couldn't find that. I was looking under Date/Time Picker properties instead of Properties/Other.

[Davidk]

Re: Date / Time Picker -- Disable the TODAY button.

Didn't even know that was there... way better.

[TheSmitchell]

Re: Date / Time Picker -- Disable the TODAY button.

Is there a way to hide or disable the TODAY button on the date / time picker? I have a high/low function so that dates can only be picked between those two dates. However, all they need to do is press TODAY to by-pass my functions.

Did you report this to Alpha?

[Davidk]

Re: Date / Time Picker -- Disable the TODAY button.

Hey Sarah,

I don't think this is anything to report. There are a billion features... mix and match to get what you need... and make sure you have you look after what you don't.

A bit of error checking will stop "Today" from being used... and as Ghandi shows... remove it if you don't want it.

[TheSmitchell]

Re: Date / Time Picker -- Disable the TODAY button.

how about you just remove date picker today button text, leave it blank?

http://screencast.com/t/eaFe4EyinAm
http://screencast.com/t/bgaqpHEwk

The today button is still there and could still be clicked, if only by accident when trying to navigate to the next month.

You could try this instead. I made a function for the "onItemDraw" event for the date picker. Left "Today" alone. It removes the button, or, rather, hides it so you can't click on it:

var onItemDraw = function () {
    if (typeof ({grid.object}._fieldHelpers_G.LOG_DATE._dateTime) === 'undefined') return;
    if (typeof ({grid.object}._fieldHelpers_G.LOG_DATE._dateTime.contId) === 'undefined') return;

    var ele = $({grid.object}._fieldHelpers_G.LOG_DATE._dateTime.contId+".D.DATEPICKER.TODAYBUTTON");
    if (ele) {
        ele.style.display = 'none';
    }
};

The beauty of this is that it only removes the Today button in the date picker for your specific field. So, if you have other date pickers on the same component, they can have Today buttons.

beforeToday.pngafterToday.png

[GGandhi]

Re: Date / Time Picker -- Disable the TODAY button.

here is another way to do that,
take a look at this screencast:

http://screencast.com/t/Fa4Ahd9GdLW