I am using date fields in Orbeon form builder that should be prefilled with the current date (see http://i42.tinypic.com/erdjrb.jpg). When choosing a date by hand in the form, the date format in resulting XML model is set to "2011-07-12". But when not changing the default value of current-date(), then I get "2011-07-12+02:00". Does anybody know why the date format is different when I prefill it with current-date()?
Thank you!
The XPath function fn:current-date() by definition returns the date together with explicit time zone information. I assume orbeon just passes the function call to the XPath engine (Saxon i think). A quick workaround would be to format the result of current-date() using format-date(), for example:
format-date(current-date(), '[Y]-[M01]-[D01]')
Since i don't use Form Builder, i can't tell in detail, but i assume setting the config options how to format xforms:input controls regarding date and time values applies for form builder, too.
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i am creating orbeon form, so i write a script that can convert number into words,now is it possible to pass the parameter url in orbeon to read a text field and convert the number in to word in another textfield or populate another textfield from the url?
I'm not sure what you need. If you need get URL parameter you can use xxf:get-request-parameter() (https://doc.orbeon.com/xforms/xpath/extension-functions/extension-http#xxf-get-request-parameter). For example set this funciton as calculated value for some Text Field, publish form and test it in Runner.
If it not correct answer, please write more information about you problem.
Im using orbeon 4.10 to collect data and fill back a PDF from a template. I would like to choose how the time is displayed on the pdf. I have seen the oxf.xforms.format.input.time and oxf.xforms.format.output.time properties, but they seem to only control the form itself.
I have also seen this, but it seems to relate to the date format.
What value do I need to change in my properties?
Thanks
UPDATE: I don't think my solution below actually works. I think this might have worked at some point but might not work anymore. We do have an RFE for this.
You can use the following property:
<property
as="xs:string"
name="oxf.fr.resource.$app.$form.$lang.print.formats.time"
value="[H01]:[m01]:[s01]]"/>
where:
$app is the app name
$form is the form name
$lang is the language which applies
You can use wildcards (*) for all of those.
As a workaround i used a Hidden field to format my time correctly for the pdf.
Here is the formating code :format-time($controlname, '[H01]:[m01]') that i used in the calculated value
Here is the visibility code : $fr-mode = 'email' for the pdf generated from email or $fr-mode = 'pdf' for pdf button.
I have several datetime_field in my application. By default, they are displaying the date as the rails format, as I dictated that for my bootstrap-datepicker:
format: 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'
The issue: I want the date on the views to display in a different format, say:
'MM-DD-YYYY HH:mm:ss'
I've been scratching my head for a while on this one. Every change I make to the view side, be it by Javascript, jQuery, rails methods, helpers, whatever - they all affect the submit data, which then becomes invalid, because Rails expects the first format.
I don't want to change the default date format - we have other aspects of the website that need the database in the normal rails format. I just want to change the display of the date in the datetime_field, without changing the submitted date.
My guess would be it was an option in the datetime_field, but I can't seem to find one:
<%= f.datetime_field(:end_date, {?????})%>
Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?
I am trying to format an input field of the type xs:date in Orbeon.
I have tried using the xxf:format attribute, but the datepicker can not understand the date when it has been modified.
The idea now was to change the javascript of Orbeon to use the xxf:unformat attribute to interpret the date and transform it back to ISO format.
I've tried changing the data.js but for some reason none of the changes can be seen.
Am I changing the wrong file?
Edit
I figured out that the xforms.js has a function 'getCurrentValue' which is being as the changes I do there are visible. Now I just need to figure out who is the one that's calling the function.
Edit:
It is the Calendar who requests the value of the input when the user clicks on the symbol. This all happens at the client side, and the generated HTML does not have the format/unformat attributes. However I want to use their value. Can I make a request to Orbeon to get it? How?
In case you're using an xf:input bound to a node of type xs:date, you can control the formatting of the date field with the oxf.xforms.format.input.date property. A few formats are supported, and if you want to add more, the best would be to follow the pattern currently used for the currently supported formats.
E.g.
[M]/[D]/[Y]
[Y]-[M01]-[D01]
I need to save Date Time in the (oracle) database in one column, which is sqlType of timestamp (looks like 01-JAN-14 12.00.00.000000 AM). While learning grails I've been using the Joda lib with it's "time picker".
The Joda timepicker has worked well, but now that I'm looking to go primetime I'm looking for something a little more user friendly. Frankly, text boxes might be more user friendly than the drops downs joda gives you.
Anyway, I'd like to remove joda and use something like this:
http://trentrichardson.com/examples/timepicker/
but I can't figure out how to implement it in grails. In my view, if I put:
<input type="text" name="endDate" id="endDate" value="${exampleInstance?.endDate}" />
in place of the g:datePicker, it works fine (the picker that is), except nothing gets saved to the database, and no errors are generated. I hit Save and the Show view comes up with an empty endDate field. Do I need more input tags?
Is there some easy way to implement a modern looking date+time picker that I've missed?
Furthermore, I see there is a plugin for this picker here
http://grails.org/plugin/jquery-ui-timepicker
But being that there isn't any documentation, I'm not sure how to use that either (?)
ANSWER
in controller save/update put something like:
def endDate = params.date('endDate', 'yy-MM-dd h:mm')
//println "Date from Picker was "+endDate
params.endDate = endDate
No further casting was necessary being that it ended up I could format the datepicker control to a very close format as what's in the database, but had I needed to cast from one odd format, or a string, to another, I toyed with this code, which is more psuedo than anything as I was thinking through the process (I'm sure there's a totally Groovy way to do this same thing):
SimpleDateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S");
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy h.mm.ss.S a");
def v = params.endDate
Date date = inputFormat.parse(v);
String temp = sdf.format(date)
Date dateOut = sdf.parse(temp)
println dateOut
The datepicker, is your UI component therefore, you can have any library that you wish for UI and anything else for back-end. Mostly they are easy to implement, if they provide a little bit of documentation!!.
The timepicker for jQuery ui plugin, that you provided the link, is exposing a resource called jqueryUiTimePicker which depends on jQuery and jQuery-ui. So simply by including this resource into you resources configuration you should be able to utilize it. Its no different than defining your own resource and use it.
About saving issue that you have, on your save pass parameter failOnError:true so you can see the errors if any.
I have created a sample project that utilizes this plugin hope it helps
In your controller, you will need to parse the parameter value to a Date value. Something like,
def endDate = params.date('endDate', 'dd-MM-yyyy')
dd-MM-yyyy is whatever format the jquery plugin submits the date value. (println params for this or look up the plugin documentation)
If you want a date format binding to happen automatically, check the Date Formats For Data Binding in the doc http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/single.html#dataBinding for a way to globally specify the format