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

[Matthew Jones]

There is actually an open issue right now in Chrome only where it does
allow you to type in the text box (because of a jQuery change which hasn't
been updated). https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-27881 The intended
behavior is to disable input into the box.

The bug with this is that if you type something in, it is reflected in the
calendar and "appears" like it might work, but the changes you make when
typing are not submitted on the form (for Assignments and some tools) until
you actually hit "Done" on the date picker. This is because of some fixes
were mostly in the templates and worked with the existing (hidden) form
elements rather than changing the form Action handlers.

Being restricted from manually entering dates also means that there is less
need for date validation on the back-end as it's more difficult to put in
an incorrectly formatted date. Some tools (mostly velocity like Assignment)
had fixed entry date input formats while others were free form. If it was
the desire to make this field not-disabled, it would take some work and QA,
rejecting invalid dates that cannot be processed.

This was all to get a consistent date picker UI that supports i18n across
all of the tools, since we had around 5 (maybe more) different date pickers
in use in Sakai depending on the tool.

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!
> >>>>
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