For the setup code, please reffer to Articles that only have relations to Other Pages

When creating a Holding Page and then a Article page the edit mask displays the SS_Datetime. This field will be used later to sort the articles with and I would like to use the setConfig function 'showcalander' as described in the Tutorial.

Now I am sure that the Date could not be all that difficult, but I have no clue yet how to do it, and the next obvious question would be, is there a time picker :?

Greetings from Germany

I could not find a way to get a DateTime-Picker, so I ended up using 2 Fields.

First add the extra field CreatTime in the $db (rebuild!)
and then Create a getCMSFields override function
create, config and add the fields, and it works.

Updated Article.php

<?php
class Article extends DataObject {
	private static $db = array(
		'Heading' => 'Varchar',
		'CreateDate' => 'Date',
		'CreateTime' => 'Time',
		'Author' => 'Varchar',
		'Content' => 'HTMLText'
	);
	private static $belongs_many_many = array(
		'Article' => 'ArticleHolder'
	);
	public static $summary_fields = array(
		'Heading' => 'Heading',
		'CreateDate' => 'Date',
		'Author' => 'Author'
	);
	static $default_sort = "CreateDate ASC";
	private static $searchable_fields = array(
		'Heading' => 'PartialMatchFilter'
	);
	public function getCMSFields() {
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
		$dateField = new DateField('CreateDate','Date','Creation Date?');
		$timeField = new TimeField('CreateTime','Time','now');
		$dateField->setConfig('showcalendar', true);
		$timeField->setConfig('use_strtotime', true);
		$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Main',$dateField,'Author');
		$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Main',$timeField,'Author');
		return $fields;
    }
}

Any improvements are always welcome.

Hi Adesso,

you probably missed the fact that you are dealing with a DatetimeField not a DateField. You cannot set the showcalendar option on a DatetimeField. The DatetimeField consists of three fields, a DateField, a TimeField and a HiddenField for the timezone. So you have to get hold of the DateField. Here is what you do:

class MyClass extends DataObject
{
    private static $db = array(
        'MyDatetimeFiled' => 'SS_Datetime',
    );

    public function getCMSFields()
        $fields = parent::getCMSFields();
        // You don't have to create the field since it's already been created by the scaffolder. You just set the option.
        $fields->dataFieldByName('MyDatetimeField')->getDateField()->setConfig('showcalendar', true);
        return $fields;
    }
}

Afaik there is no SS-timepicker.

Grüße aus HH

andy

Great stuff,

with your suggestions I managed to get back to the original idea of a DateTime object with picker.
http://api.silverstripe.org/3.1/class-FormField.html#$containerFieldList

I added another setting for the time field getTimeField.
Here is the resulting code that creates a DateTime Object with Date-Picker and the current time on creation.

class MyClass extends DataObject { 
	private static $db = array( 
		'MyDatetimeFiled' => 'SS_Datetime', 
	);

	public function getCMSFields() {
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
		$fields->dataFieldByName('MyDatetimeField')->getDateField()->setConfig('showcalendar', true);
		$fields->dataFieldByName('MyDatetimeField')->getTimeField()->setConfig('use_strtotime', true);
		$fields->dataFieldByName('MyDatetimeField')->getTimeField()->setValue('now');
		return $fields;
	} 
}

Thanks for the help ;)
Grüße aus Frankfurt