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The Version 5 Calendar control

This topic describes the Version 5 Calendar control, which uses non-auto-generated controls to present properties as Date, DateTime, or TimeOfDay values.

The Calendar control uses the auto-generated control pxDateTime. See Harness and Section forms — Adding a Calendar control.

Cell Properties panel — Top fields

Click the magnifying glass (Magnifying glass) icon to display the Cell Properties panel .

Your updates to this panel update the rule form upon clicking Apply. If the panel is pinned (pin), the wireframe on the rule form changes immediately to reflect your inputs. If the panel is not pinned (pin), click Apply to apply your inputs.

Field

Description

magnifying glass

(Appears only when this field is in a section included within the current open rule.) Click to open the section that immediately contains the field.

Property

Select or type a property reference that identifies a single text value and has a Property Type of DateTime, Date, or TimeOfDay.

Alternatively, you can drag a property name from the lists of properties visible in the Application Explorer. Typically, this works for Single Value properties belonging to in the Applies to class of the current rule (or a higher class). If the container in which this field sits has a non-blank Using Page value, you can drag a Single Value property from within that embedded page property.

Click (magnifying glass) to review the property (if the reference is to an existing property in the Applies To class of this rule or a parent of that class). If the property is not found, the New dialog box for the property form appears.

You can reference properties on any page identified on the Pages & Classes tab, using the normal notation pagename.propertyname for pages other than the page corresponding to the Applies To class of the rule.

If this field is in a cell of a section that includes parameter declarations on the Parameters tab, you can enter the notation param.NAME here, to use a parameter value for the field, where NAME identifies a string parameter. Make sure that the NAME parameter is declared on the Parameters tab, and that your application provides a non-blank value for the parameter value in all possible situations where the section appears. See Sections — Completing the Parameter tab.

Control

To represent the property as a date and time with a pop-up calendar, keep the value DateTime-Calendar.

Click (Magnifying glass)to supply parameter values for this Control rule. All parameters are optional.

Parameter

Description

ReadOnlySmartInfo Optional. Identify the Purpose key part of a section to present as a SmartInfo pop-up for this control when the field is read-only.
ReadWriteSmartInfo Optional. Identify Purpose key part of a section to present as a SmartInfo pop-up for this control when the field is read-only.
SmartInfoHeader Optional. Enter text to appear in a SmartInfo header.
Width

Width in characters of the calendar control.

Some DateTime properties control have an Expected Length (in characters) defined on the Advanced tab of the Property form. Enter the special value auto for the Width parameter of the Default Control rule to cause the width of the input box to be set at runtime based on the Expected Length.

The auto overrides the column width restrictions of SmartLayouts.

Click OK to save parameter values.

If this DateTime property is within a section that itself has parameters (defined on the Parameters tab of the Section form), you can reference a section parameter to supply a Control parameter value, with the normal notation PARAM.Name.

Behavior

Optional. Leave blank if no dynamic form actions to other parts of the form are to occur based on user updates or values for this field.

To establish a dynamic form action, click the magnifying glass icon (Magnifying glass) to open the Client Event Editor in a new dialog window. Complete the Client Event Editor to select an event (OnBlur, OnChange, or OnClick) and the resulting form action.

Click the help icon on the Client Event Editor for assistance. For general information on this capability, see Harness and Section forms Help — Client Event Editor.

Client event support is not available for harnesses, sections, or flow actions that use directives.

Cell properties panel — General tab

The General tab for a DateTime field is identical to the General tab for a Text Input control. See About the Text Input control — General tab.

Cell properties panel — Advanced tab

The Advanced tab for a DateTime field is identical to the Advanced tab for a Text Input control. See About the Text Input control — Advanced tab.

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