wiki:DateFieldPlugin

Version 44 (modified by Ryan J Ollos, 12 years ago) (diff)

Be more explicit about which branch is the development branch.

Add custom date fields to tickets and helps date selection

Description

This plugin allows for validating custom fields as dates in tickets and also for milestones due_date field (some restriction apply).

Currently this will only validate that the given input looks like the specified date format (see below). Date range checking could be added if someone asks nicely enough.

Usage

  1. Install and configure
  2. Pick a date on tickets and milestones

Development News

  • 1.1.0: The jQuery UI component has been downgraded to 1.6 to ensure compatibility with jQuery 1.2.6 that ships with Trac 0.11.x
  • The 0.12 branch is a development branch has been created to support work towards version 2.0 of the plugin. This branch will be far less stable than the 0.11 branch, and only supports Trac 0.12+ at the moment.

0.11 branch ------------------- Development branch

DateFieldPlugin at version 1.0.3

Installation

  1. Install globally with:
      sudo easy_install https://trac-hacks.org/svn/datefieldplugin/0.11/
    
  2. Enable the plugin by updating TracIni file (..../trac.ini) as follows:
      [components]
      datefield.* = enabled
    
  3. Configure the project management support for the plugin in its own configuration section, placed into 'trac.ini' file as follows:
    1. To add a Due Date, just set up the field as a custom field, or use the CustomFieldAdminPlugin (image right) to create a date field:
        [ticket-custom]
        due_date = text
        due_date.date = true
        due_date.label = Due Date
        due_date.value = MM-DD-YYYY
        due_date.date_empty = true
      
    2. Site-wide defaults for macro arguments may be set at [datefield] section. More details about them see #Arguments section.
        [datefield]
        format = mdy
        separator = -
        first_day = 1
      
  4. Restart web server on command line:
        $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
    

Arguments

This plugin can be controlled with a number of arguments, inside [datefield] section contained in trac.ini configuration file:

Argument Version Description Default
value
format The format to use for dates. valid formats are dmy, mdy, and ymd dmy
separator The separator character to use for dates. Possible values are - or . or / /
first_day >= [6118] First day of the week (0=Sunday .. 6=Saturday) 0
months >= [7192] How many months to show at once? 1
milestone >= [7192] Use datepicker for milestone due/complete fields? (format= must match your locale) If you turn this on, you must use MM/DD/YYYY for the date format. Set format to mdy and separator to /. false
weeknumbers >= [7192] Show ISO8601 week number in calendar? false
panel >= [7192] Show panel with a "Today" and "Done" buttons (at bottom)? false
change_month >= [7192] Show a dropdown with month selection? false
change_year >= [7192] Show a dropdown with year selection? false
match_request >= [7192] Use datepicker on arbitrary request paths. Use text fields with class=datepick in your template, and configure the start of request path (in list format), like: match_request = /query,/other_path
months >= [7192] Number of months visible in datepicker 1

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for DateFieldPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Known issues

  1. If you have the AutoQueryPlugin installed, you'll need to patch the DateFieldPlugin to work with it, see comment:4:ticket:6796.

Source & Download

You can check out DateFieldPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Download the zipped source from [download:datefieldplugin here].

Recent Changes

16195 by rjollos on 2017-01-21 22:49:11
3.0.0: Set Trac version requirements
14902 by rjollos on 2015-09-15 22:52:02
3.0.0: Release version 3.0.0 of plugin.
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Author/Contributors

Author: coderanger
Maintainer: doki_pen, rjollos
Contributors: terje

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