By gthing on

I have a view which uses an argument (not a filter) to show nodes from a single date. I would like to add a date picker to the header of the view so users can jump to a given day. I need to invoke the date picker popup and then have it jump to a URL with the selected date provided as an argument, but I'm unsure how to do that. Any help?

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ludo1960 commented

Hi, you would think this is an easy thing to do. Not the case! Anyone??

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mechler commented

I'm wondering how to do this, too.

The catch here is that the whole calendar itself is a date picker, right? At least in the case of a calendar displaying nodes. This is the case because even if you're viewing a single date, you can back out to the week, month, or year view and essentially pick your date from there. Still, that's an extra page load (at least) and a little waiting. It's also inconvenient.

It is for these reasons that I need to arrange to affix a smaller jQuery calendar at the top of the page to more easily navigate to a single date a few months down the road, etc.

One thing that I've thought about is altering the form with a custom module and grabbing the argument myself to draw the calendar that would function as a pseudo-exposed-filter and allow date selection. I would need to draw the calendar with the existing jQuery UI API and then separately (because I can't find a way to do it in the documentation) ensure that the dates within the datepicker are links to the days themselves, appropriately passing the arguments to the view.

This seems like a tremendous headache for something that seems like a common task, but because the calendar view itself functions in this way, perhaps it is not such a common request after all. That assumption is either incorrect, or a need exists for a simpler method of implementing this.

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