Date searching

  • joanneparra

    (@joanneparra)


    8 years ago

    If I have a date field formatted as m/d/y, do users have to put in the exact date when searching? For instance, if they just wanted to pull up all of the records with a year of 1977, how do they do that? I tried just putting in the year but get a no records found message.

    Do I need the Combo Multisearch add-on for this to work?

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  • master331

    (@master331)

    8 years ago

    @xnau
    I have simillar question.
    If i have 3 dropdown field wtih valus day (1-31) , month (january – december) and year (1995-2018), how to setup search for example november 2007 and to show all entries from november 2007?

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    8 years ago

    The search function isn’t capable of understanding partial dates, so it’s not possible to get search results such as you suggest.

    The Combo Multisearch add-on provides a way to get results from a range of dates, but it doesn’t correctly interpret partial dates either.

    porams

    (@porams)

    8 years ago

    I have my field type Date. My concern, is there a way to show pop up calendar during sign up? Thanks

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    8 years ago

    Yes, it’s possible, you’ll need the Datepicker add-on for that.

    porams

    (@porams)

    8 years ago

    Sorry, but I’m new using Participants Database. How can I integrate that? Thanks

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    8 years ago

    It is an extension to Participants Database that is offered on my site. When you install it, it adds new capabilities to Participants Database, in this case a customizable datepicker.

    Thread Starter joanneparra

    (@joanneparra)

    7 years, 12 months ago

    So if I wanted to do the kind of date searching I described, do you think it would be better to split the date up into separate fields?

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    7 years, 12 months ago

    The add-on is capable of doing date range searches, but it does this by showing two date inputs. The idea of being able to search for a month or a year as a single input is a very good one, and I have it on the list of improvements, but that is not currently implemented in the add-on.

    Thread Starter joanneparra

    (@joanneparra)

    7 years, 12 months ago

    Ok. Thanks for the explanations =)

    Thread Starter joanneparra

    (@joanneparra)

    7 years, 10 months ago

    Hey Roland,

    I was playing with different ideas for making this date searching work the way I need it to. You mentioned that the Combo/Multisearch add-on might be the answer.

    So can I set it up so that I can search a range of dates? i.e. if I want an article from 1975, I could configure it to search between 1/1/1975 and 12/31/1975?

    Thanks,
    Joanne

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    7 years, 10 months ago

    Yes, it can work with a range of dates, it will provide two fields to define the range. You can even add a datepicker if you want.

    I am working on a solution for a more intuitive textual date search, but that’s down the road a bit.

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