[Using Sakai] Assignments: revert to "old style" due-date entry?

[Bryan Holladay]

We had a discussion with this datepick a few weeks back and the reason was
for i18n and text parsing. Here's the thread:

http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2014-July/028262.html

It may be something we should discuss as a modification to the DatePicker.
I personally think that as long as there is error handling for bad date
inputs, the input field should not be disabled. If someone doesn't know the
correct input form, then they can use the DatePicker. But I'm not going to
make any changes w/o input and consensus from the community. You may even
want to ask the PMC (
http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-pmc)

-Bryan

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Norman Danner <ndanner at wesleyan.edu> wrote:

> I did a bit of playing around on Snow Leopard (the only OS I have easy
> access to right now).
>
> On Firefox 32 and Safari 5.1.10, the text fields are completely disabled,
> regardless of clicking in and out.
>
> On Chrome, just as Bryan says, the text field can be enabled by clicking
> in and out and in again.
>
> Does anyone know the intended behavior?  I.e., are the text fields for
> dates intended to be editable?
>
>         - Norman
>
>
> On 9/8/14 1:45 PM, Bryan Holladay wrote:
>
>> It seems that the text field is disabled at first. Then when you click out
>> of the text box and back in, the text field is then editable (at least in
>> Chrome). I believe the reason the text field is supposed to be disabled is
>> since there are too many ways to input data (especially accounting for
>> i18n) and the date picker is a way to make it more uniform.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Tyler Beason <tbeason at mail.bradley.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Bryan,
>>>
>>> Within Assignments, we are not able to use text entry to input dates.
>>> Using the popup date picker is forced, the text box becomes grayed out.
>>> We've had lots of professors complaining about this, and this could be
>>> what
>>> Norman is referring to.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tyler
>>>
>>> Tyler Beason
>>> Graduate Assistant, Instructional Design & Learning Technologies (IDLT)
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  There's no way to revert the date picker in the Assignments settings
>>>> page. You can just write the dates in with your keyboard in the text
>>>> field
>>>> instead of using the popup calendar.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Norman Danner <ndanner at wesleyan.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Short version:  is there a way to make Assignments in Sakai 10 revert
>>>>> back to the "old style" of date entries via menus?
>>>>>
>>>>> Long version:  I recently upgraded to Sakai 10, and see that
>>>>> Assignments
>>>>> now has a clever calendar widget for entering the due date (and open
>>>>> date, etc.).  But in fact, I find it *really* annoying; it takes twice
>>>>> as long to enter the various dates as before, when I could type just
>>>>> about everything.  Even worse, the sliders for setting the time don't
>>>>> release if you happen to drag outside the widget, as is usually the
>>>>> case
>>>>> for an 11:55pm due-time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Norman Danner - ndanner at wesleyan.edu - http://ndanner.web.wesleyan.edu
>>>>> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University
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