Reversing the order of the years doesn't work in date popup [#891608]

Just a suggestion - there should be an option, when creating a date via dropdown boxes, to sort the years descending, not just ascending. For forms where more young people are going to register than old, it's really frustrating for everyone to have to go all the way down to the bottom.

It's easy for the code to do this (date.inc line 214 - switch the ranges), I'd patch it if I could but I don't know where to put and store the setting for such a variable.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#4	webform_date_year_order.patch	822 bytes	quicksketch

Comments

Comment #1

jennypanighetti commented 24 August 2010 at 02:10

Component:

Code

» User interface

Comment #2

quicksketch

he/him

commented 24 August 2010 at 05:24

Title:	Reverse the order of the years	» Reversing the order of the years doesn't work in date popup
Category:	feature	» bug
Priority:	Normal	» Minor

You can already do this by swapping the order of "Start date" and "End date" (so start at +2 years and end at -2 years for example). Unfortunately I found that this doesn't work in combination with the date popup, seems like it might be a limitation of the jQuery UI Calendar.

I'm going to move this to a bug report, since as a feature you can already do this.

Comment #3

jennypanighetti commented 26 August 2010 at 03:55

Ohh, interesting. Well I was using the dropdowns anyway, so that's a big help personally. But yes it would be interesting to know if that's a limitation in jquery or something else.

Comment #4

quicksketch

he/him

commented 26 August 2010 at 11:14

Status:

Active

» Fixed

Status	File	Size
new	webform_date_year_order.patch	822 bytes

The jQuery UI datepicker apparently doesn't take dates in reverse order even in the newest version, so I've committed this patch to ensure the date range is passed in the expected order.