[Toaster] Questions about date range function

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On 16/03/2015 11:24, "Michael Wood" <michael.g.wood at intel.com> wrote:

You can customise jQuery UI using the download builder

http://jqueryui.com/download/



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

But we can definitely use this instead. That range control might be handy
:)

Cheers

Belén

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>Michael
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>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
>> ³toastergui/static/js/jquery-ui.js² 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 ³jquery-ui.js², 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
>> ³started² and ³completed² fields.
>> Should I perhaps avoid a second sort for ³completed² by using the
>> minimum ³started² date as dateMin and perhaps the maximum ³started²
>> 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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