The DateField expects a data[dataField] to be of type Date not String. You'll probably have to convert String to Date.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Sherwood Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Inline DateField ItemRenderer causes Entire Datagrid contents to disappear I discovered that if I set the dataField="" in the <mx:DatagridColumn> tag, then it renders the DateField control. I'm stumped why I can't set the dataField="requested_date", which is a string representation of a properly formatted date out of the database... any thoughts? Thanks, Chad --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Chad Sherwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have 7 different itemRenderers in my datagrid. As long as I don't > use the DateField as an inline ItemRenderer, everything is fine, all > other renderers actually appear, along with the data they contain. > As soon as I add in the "simplest" version of the DateField object as > the itemRenderer, everything in the datagrid completely disappears. > > Anyone have any thoughts on what might be happening? > > > Here is my datagrid layout: > > <mx:DataGrid id="catalogsGrid" > width="{this.width-100}" > height="{this.height-150}" > sortableColumns="true" > > <mx:columns> > <mx:DataGridColumn > dataField="status_indicator" > editable="false" > editorDataField="value" > headerText="Status" > rendererIsEditor="true" > > <mx:itemRenderer> > <mx:Component > > <mx:ComboBox > dataProvider="{outerDocument.statusDataProvider}" > text="{data.status_description}" > dataChange="outerDocument.setStatus > (event)" change="outerDocument.changeStatus > (event)"/> > </mx:Component> > </mx:itemRenderer> > </mx:DataGridColumn> > <mx:DataGridColumn > dataField="quantity" > editable="true" > editorDataField="value" > headerText="Quantity" > rendererIsEditor="true" > width="65"> > <mx:itemRenderer > > <mx:Component> > <mx:NumericStepper > minimum="1" maximum="99"/> > </mx:Component> > </mx:itemRenderer> > </mx:DataGridColumn> > <mx:DataGridColumn > dataField="requested_date" > headerText="Requested On" > editorDataField="selectedDate" > itemRenderer="mx.controls.DateField"> > </mx:DataGridColumn> > <mx:DataGridColumn > dataField="labels_printed_date" > headerText="Printed On" > editorDataField="text" > editable="false" > rendererIsEditor="false" > width="120" > > <mx:itemRenderer > > <mx:Component> > <mx:TextInput > editable="false"/> > </mx:Component> > </mx:itemRenderer> > </mx:DataGridColumn> > ... >
