The solution was obvious -- once Geert led me to my own mistake :)
Dates are not simple types, they need to have a formatter in the
metadata class. The jscalendar widget was indeed sending the right
data, I just hadn't told Rife what to do with. it.
There is a thread on the mailing list about reading date in the
context of CRUD Table creation but wether you're using CRUD or
writing your own forms, it's the same issue. See http://tinyurl.com/
2e9cet (or search for SimpleDateFormat in the list archives) which
gives the solution.
One thing to be aware of if using jscalendar to input your dates is
that you have to have it return dates that match the format you
specify in the metadata class.
David
On Jan 25, 2007, at 12:15 AM, David HM Spector wrote:
Has anyone used jscalendar (www.dynarch.com) with Rife forms?
Another JS widget, TinyMCE, works perfectly for allowing me to
create text/html editing panes; with jscalendar the date selector
works, dates show up on the HTML form, but don't make it back into
the bean data after the submit (but other items including data
from TinyMCE do). Its not clear to me if there's something wrong
with the jscalendar itself (not clear since it IS putting dates
into fields that are visible on the form) or if Rife doesn't know
what to do with the data when it comes back and is failing
silently... ) Is there a correct date format that must be used on
forms in order for a Date field to get set correctly?
_DHMS
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