topic Re: Calendars in Alfresco Archive

Calendars

indsev — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:32:12 GMT

Hi!I'd like to know if it's possible to change the way that dates in Alfresco are shown, I mean, is it possible to show a calendar? What classes do I have to change to make it possible?It's really urgent.Thank you very much!

Re: Calendars

dhalupa — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:43:11 GMT

Yes, it is possible.. Default alfresco DatePicker component is generated by org.alfresco.web.bean.generator.DatePickerGenerator and DateTimePickerGenerator depending on the type of property. You have two options, you wil either edit above two classes in order to instantiate your calendar component or you can write new Component Generator and register it under the same bean name as default component generators.

The second thing (or maybe it should be first) is to decide which calendar component to use for date input.
There are quite a few jsf open source component libraries which provide nice calendar components, I have tried Tomahawk and RichFaces and both of them perform nicely. Finally I have opted for RichFaces.

But there is a catch, both Tomahawk and RichFaces are using Prototype as javascript library which is not compatible with mootools used by alfresco, therefore to use these calendar components you have to turn mootools off. There are couple of threads about this topic on this forum, just search for mootools

kind regards,

Denis

Re: Calendars

indsev — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:26:56 GMT

Thank you very much for your answer!
I still have some doubts, how do I have to modify DatePickerGenerator to be able to show a Calendar? I mean, what methods do I have to change and how? If you could give me an example about this I would be really really grateful.
Thank you!

Re: Calendars

dhalupa — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:40:32 GMT

You have to change method generate(FacesContext context, String id). By default, this method instantiates UIInput component, sets DatePicker renderer, and performs some initialization. You will have to replace this code with instantiation and initialization of your custom date component.

Re: Calendars

indsev — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:53:26 GMT

Thanks again.
Could you please tell me where can I get the components to use the calendar? Richfaces seems a good option, but in fact I don't really know where to find it and how to use it.
Thank you

Re: Calendars

dhalupa — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:13:39 GMT

google "richfaces" 😉

Re: Calendars

indsev — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:15:20 GMT

I've redefined the method "generate" as you said:

    public UIComponent generate(FacesContext context, String id)
    {

       HtmlCalendar component = new HtmlCalendar();
        component.setRendererType("org.richfaces.CalendarRenderer");
        FacesHelper.setupComponentId(context, component, id);

        component.getAttributes().put("startYear", Integer.valueOf(startYear));
        component.getAttributes().put("yearCount", Integer.valueOf(yearCount));
        component.getAttributes().put("initialiseIfNull", new Boolean(initialiseIfNull));
        component.getAttributes().put("style", "margin-right: 7px;");


        if(noneLabel != null)
        {
            component.getAttributes().put("noneLabel", noneLabel);
        }
        return component;
    }

Then, I've disabled mootools. However, calendars don't appear. Dates are still shown in the same way. What am I missing?

Thanks.

Re: Calendars

indsev — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:50:34 GMT

Hi again,
I've realised that in fact it was working, except in the advanced-search, and that's where I need it. Does anybody knows why?
Thank you.

Re: Calendars

dhalupa — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:29:53 GMT

Re: Calendars

indsev — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:42:37 GMT

Yes, the problem is that my Advanced-search works like that:
When you select a content type (or a folder type), its attributes are shown, so that you can search by them (I had to modify some classes to make it worked). So, they are dinamically loaded, not included in the jsp.
Is there any way to make them work?
Thank you again.

Re: Calendars

dhalupa — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:58:45 GMT

You really made me confused
If you had the knowledge to make your Advanced search interface dynamic, than you should know how you instantiated your components and how to instantiate some other components instead of default ones.

Re: Calendars

indsev — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:02:17 GMT

Hi dhalupa,
Can you help me once again?
I managed to make calendars work, but only if type is date. If type is datetime, I get the following error:

org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Failed to parse date 14/02/2008
caused by:
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "14/0"

I've changed DateTimePickerGenerator in the same way as DateTimePicker, but only dates work (and not datetimes). Any idea?
Thank you very much again!

Re: Calendars

dhalupa — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:15:08 GMT

Sorry, I can not possibly know what you have changed in your code. Try setting up debugger and stepping through the code

Kind regards,

Denis

Re: Calendars

joshuafrfld701 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:30:17 GMT

Advanced search screen does not use ComponentGenerators to generate components but components are rather hardcoded within jsp. Check Web-Client/source/web/jsp/search/advanced-search.jsp, If you could give me an example about this I would be really really grateful.

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