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Adding a Pop-up Calendar to your Report/Maintainer

When your end user needs to enter a date into a form (Either a maintainer or the prompt page of a report), I am sure your cringe. What if they enter the date in the wrong format? What if they try to put slashes into an all numeric date field? All in all, you are asking for trouble. With this in mind, m-Power gives you the ability to add, quite easily, a date pop-up calendar to your servlet.

In the example below, we will add a Pop-Up Date Calendar to a maintenance application.

Build your maintenance application as you normally do. After specifying files, fields, and sequencing, select the Preformat link. Select the field to which you wish to add the Pop-Up Calendar functionality.

Notice we have added a “C” to the User Defined Field Control. Note: Due to the flexibility of m-Power, you do not need to specify a “true” date field. Any numeric or alpha field will work.

Click “Accept” and Build/Compile your application.

Selecting a date, will close the pop-up box and place the value into the form.

A common question – Your date utilizes MM/DD/YY, what if I want YY-MM-DD or YYYYMMDD. Is this possible?

Yes – it is quite easy to accomplish. In this example, let’s say my “Order Date” field was an 8 numeric field. We could display the date from the calendar as YYYYMMDD. We will need to make this change within the Painter. Open the Source mode within m-Painter.

Click the and search for “onclick.” This will take us directly to the line we need to modify

Change the ‘mm/dd/yy’ to a standard form that better suits your needs. In our case:

Click the “Save and Deploy” icon and run your application.

Now, when I click on the calendar, my output looks like this: