Javascript error in date fields/calendar popups

**cmayo** · 2007-11-16, 02:41 PM

Hello all,

I'm working on a new client's system, and it seems that every date field on his system that's linked to a popup calendar is throwing an "Object Expected" Javascript error on exiiting the field. I've spent a few hours trying to find the problem without much luck...

I've tried to boil the code down to a short example... does anyone see anything glaringly wrong with the code below?

Thanks in advance for any ideas,

Chuck

HTML Code:

<html style="background-color: buttonface; color: buttontext;">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/xml; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Simple calendar setups [popup calendar]</title>

  <!-- calendar stylesheet -->
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="chuck_cal/jscalendar-1.0/calendar-win2k-cold-1.css" title="win2k-cold-1" />

  <script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/jscalendar-1.0/calendar.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="chuck_cal/jscalendar-1.0/lang/calendar-en.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="chuck_cal/jscalendar-1.0/calendar-setup.js"></script>

</head>

<body>

<form action="#" method="get">
<input type="text" name="date" id="f_date_a" onblur="parseDate(this, '{CALENDAR_DATEFORMAT}');" />
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
    Calendar.setup({
        inputField     :    "f_date_a",   // id of the input field
        ifFormat       :    "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M",       // format of the input field
        showsTime      :    true,
        timeFormat     :    "24"
    });
</script>

</body>

**sacramentojoe** · 2007-11-17, 05:11 AM

this is what I have:
Calendar.setup ({

inputField : "jscal_field", ifFormat : "{CALENDAR_DATEFORMAT}", showsTime : false, button : "jscal_trigger", singleClick : true, step : 1

});

the formatting is handled automatically by Sugar

**cmayo** · 2007-11-26, 01:50 PM

Yeah, I see what you mean - seems like the onblur=parseDate() event is trying to do the same thing the Calendar already does -- to format the value in the date field. I just can't figure out why every date field in the app was coded that way.

If the calendar's already doing the formatting in the date field, I don't see the need for the redundant onblur action. Maybe I just need to remove the onBlur=parseDate() from all those date popups, but I can't help thinking the site was coded that way for a good reason.

It's more likely that something's gone wonky in a configuration somewhere that broke all those date fields.