[Toaster] Questions about date range function

[Michael Wood]

What about a bootstrap plugin such as 
https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker for the date picker?

Michael

On 16/03/15 06:47, Reyna, David wrote:
> Hi Belén,
> I have the date range selectors working now for Toaster-1.8, with 
> just  a few remaining requested enhancements in progress. To that end 
> I had a few questions.
> 1) How persistent do you want the date range values?
> Do you want them just persistent to the page, in other words revert to 
> dateMin and dateMax and you leave and return to the page?
> Or do you want them persistent to the session, in other words 
> preserved in the cookie stash?
> 2) To get the Datepicker to work I will need to restore 
> “toastergui/static/js/jquery-ui.js” file. This file was apparently 
> removed since Toaster-1.6.
> I will mention that this file is 436 Kb in size, and will overwhelm 
> any patch file submission. Should I commit this file in a separate 
> patch? Or is there another way to get it back into Toaster without the 
> overhead?
> BTW, I do not think that there is an easy way just to push the 
> Datepicker code from “jquery-ui.js”, without hacking and risk.
> 3) For the dateMin and dateMax, it would appear that I need to 
> instantiate the build table in the view in order to sort it by the 
> “started” and “completed” fields.
> Should I perhaps avoid a second sort for “completed” by using the 
> minimum “started” date as dateMin and perhaps the maximum “started” 
> date plus one as dateMax? The build tables are small now, but they 
> could conceivably be quite large, and these values should nicely 
> bracket the actual dates.
> Thanks,
> David
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