Wendy, We had the same issue where users were used to doing very little to enter a date, so we employ a read only text box and a calendar pop up, ala travelocity. The pop up returns the selected (and always valid) date in DD-MON-YYYY format that can be easily be parsed by the action.
We also do some JavaScript validation since the date needs to be in the future. -c ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Smoak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:07 PM Subject: RE: Dates & validation > > One vote for three pre-populated boxes. Saves on validation that way :) > > Brian > > And if I make them read-only, that would really fix it! ;) I think the > three-boxes approach comes with its own problems... I did it for a "time" > field, but there, the choices are fixed. If I wanted drop-downs for a date > then I'd have to figure out what days are valid. Blech. Besides, the users > will complain. They're used to typing in partial dates and having the > [telnet] app magically figure out what they meant. > > I'm currently dissecting the struts-validator example, and my first concern > is that all of the actions have validate="true" in struts-config.xml. I > don't think I can do that. The user may go off to a resolution page and > come back before the form needs to be validated. > > Without validate="true" in the <action> tag in struts-config, is the > Validator Plugin even going to work? Is there a way to manually validate? > In my case, I have a LookupDispatchAction, and I only want to validate at > the last minute-- the user has pressed the 'Finish' button and the 'action' > request parameter has caused the 'saveContact()' method in my > LookupDispatchAction to be called. > > Is it as simple as manually calling validate() and placing the ActionErrors > object into request scope with the appropriate name, which I think is > 'org.apache.struts.action.ERROR'? I know someone explained this to me a > week or so ago, but apparently it didn't stick. Brain overload. > > -- > Wendy Smoak > Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. > Arizona State University PA Information Resources Management > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
