History: Date Tracker Fields
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Date Tracker Fields
Two tracker field types allow you to have date/time (at least in Tiki9+)
- Date and Time
- Date and Time (Date Picker)
Date & Time Tracker Field
The options are:
| Parameters | Value | Description |
| Type | dt or d | dt for date and time, d for date |
| start_year | 4 digits number | first year in the drop down (ex: 1968) |
| end_year | 4 digits number | last year in the drop down (ex: 2020) |
| Default selection | Current Date or Blank | Indicates if blank dates should be allowed.. allows to have date not set. 'Blank' means that the default is blank. |
If the field is flagged as Mandatory, this option is ignored. If the field is flagged as not Mandatory, then the addition of an empty option will default the field to a blank date instead of the current date or the stored date for the field.
Date & Time (Date Picker) Tracker Field
Provides jQuery-UI date picker select a date and optionally time.
The options are:
| Parameters | Value | Description |
| Type | Date and Time / Date only | Components to be included |
| Default value | None (undefined) / Item creation date and time | Default date and time for new items |
At tracker item insertion time, when the user clicks at the little calendar-like icon, the Date picker Jquery widget will show up:
Details from former Tiki versions
The former preference "Admin home > Calendar > Jscalendar" seems to have no effect on the trakcer field "Date and Time (Date Picker)". In some previous Tiki versions, the Js Calendar setting added a visual selector of dates based on javascript (earlier than the Jquery date picker widget).
Date Only is currently only available in tikiwiki 1.9, the other two are available in tikiwik>=1.9
The options on Date & Time and Jscalendar types are only available in tikiwiki>= 1.10
Here is an example of the plugin tracker on a tracker using different comfiguration of these fields
In this example you see the popup of the jscalendar field that has been opened. Note that this image does not depict the Date Only field.
Date & Time Tracker Field
The options are:
| Parameters | Value | Description |
| date_time | dt or d or t | dt for date and time, d for date, t for time (only for tw>?) |
| start_year | 4 digits number | first year in the drop down (ex: 1968) - no significant for jscalendar |
| end_year | 4 digits number | last year in the drop down (ex: 2020) - no significant for jscalendar |
| blank_date | blank or empty | allows to have date not set. 'Blank' means that the default is blank. 'Empty'(tiki>=6.2) means that the default is the current date |
If the field is flagged as Mandatory, this option is ignored. If the field is flagged as not Mandatory, then the addition of an empty option will default the field to a blank date instead of the current date or the stored date for the field.
Jscalendar Tracker Field
The option is :
| Parameters | Value | Description |
| date_time | dt or d | dt for date and time(default), d for date |
It the date_time is date, the user will be ask to enter only a date not a time.It the date can be blank, the user can not fill the field.