Good thought, Adam - thanks for the feedback -- and great news that native 
support for a broader range of date types will be in version 4! 

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 7:28:09 PM UTC-4, Adam Cox wrote:
>
> Hi Angela, this looks good and I appreciate the detailed documentation on 
> how to install the extension.
>
> One thought I had is that you could move your validation into a new 
> dedicated file, and then leave branch-list.js alone.  I did this in my 
> current project, in order to create a centralized location for validation 
> functions so I could apply them in any form. I created validation.js 
> <https://github.com/mradamcox/afrh/blob/master/afrh/media/js/views/forms/sections/validation.js>,
>  
> and then used it in each form like this 
> <https://github.com/mradamcox/afrh/blob/master/afrh/media/js/views/forms/inventory-evaluation.js>
>  
> (see lines 5, 9, and 80).  I have two basic functions in there now, but 
> have thought that a simple nodeIsDigit() would be good to add.
>
> I set things up this way because I didn't want to bloat branch-list.js, in 
> fact, I don't even need it in my app at all.
>
> Anyway, the extension looks useful, and I look forward to giving it a try 
> soon.
>
> Adam
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Alexei Peters <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Angela,
>> It's great that you guys were able to extend Arches v3 to support fuzzy 
>> dates.  Including fuzzy dates natively has definitely been on our radar and 
>> will be included in v4.
>> Thanks for contributing back to the community!
>> Cheers,
>> Alexei
>>
>>
>> Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173
>>
>> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Angela Labrador <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>> While learning how Arches works and testing it out in house, we found 
>>> that adding Extended Date/Time Format 
>>> <http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/pre-submission.html>support to 
>>> Arches date fields would possibly benefit users who need to manage a wider 
>>> range of dates in their inventory system: dates such as "about 1800" or 
>>> date ranges such as "1934 - present". 
>>>
>>> We've developed a validation function that can handle such date strings 
>>> while maintaining consistency and basic integrity for search in Arches. The 
>>> feature is available to the community at our Github repository along 
>>> with more detailed technical documentation 
>>> <https://github.com/coherit/edtf-arches-hip> for installing and 
>>> testing. Our recent blog article 
>>> <http://www.coherit.com/blog/fuzzy-dates-edtf-arches/> provides some 
>>> background as well. 
>>>
>>> Please try it out -- we welcome all contributions and issue reports at 
>>> our repo!
>>>
>>> Hope this helps out some folks,
>>> Angela Labrador, PhD.
>>> Coherit Associates, LLC
>>>
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