Hi,
Sorry I didn't respond to this before. For anyone who's wondering, Stefan
is asking about the "datepicker" input type from the Semantic Forms
extension:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms/Input_types/Datepic…
It in turn gets its functionality from the jQuery UI library's "Datepicker"
module:
https://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#dropdown-month-year
Stefan - it's true that the year dropdown only shows a 10-year range around
the currently-selected year - i.e. 2006 to 2026 - which is annoying.
However, what you can do is select 2006, then open the dropdown again and
the earliest selectable year will now be 1996, and then keep going like
that.
That's also annoying to do, and a lot of users probably won't even realize
that it's possible. What I would strongly recommend is to instead use the
default "date" input type, which is better for historical dates -
"datepicker" is really only intended for picking dates around the present
time.
-Yaron
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <
nwilson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Dr. Hirn
<drhirn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm planning to use the datepicker-field for birth dates. Unfortunately,
the
list of selectable years reaches only to 2006. So you have to select
the correct day and month and a random year and then change the date in the
input-field again. This is not really straight forward.
Is there a chance to add more years to the "select-field"?
Thx
Stefan
Are you using one of these two, or something else?
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DateInputWidget
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DateTimeInputWidget
Both of those worked for me for selecting older years (the first was
tested via Commons' UploadWizard, the second via the API Sandbox).
More context/detail/links might help. :-)
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