| Customisation Title | Calendar control to show only one month rather than two |
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| Purpose of Customisation | The default calendar control shows the currently selected and next month when the icon is clicked, preference is not to show the next month in the control. |
| Author | Greg Griffiths |
| Date of Customisation | 25 July 2016 |
| Covers Livelink | Content Suite 16 |
| Livelink Modules | Home |
| Affected Templates | \module\home\datefield.html |
| Customisation Format | HTML |
| Download Here | Download as a ZIP file for Content Suite 16 |
Recently a post on the Knowledge Centre caught my attention, and I realised that this could be quickly solved with a simple change to the underlying WebLingo page. Looking at the source of the page with the control on, I was able to determine which WebLingo file was the one that control the date control, further analysis identified a series of parameters for the control, one of which was a value for number of months, amending that achieves what we were looking for :
$( "#_datepicker_`fieldname`" ).datepicker({
numberOfMonths: 21,
showButtonPanel: false,
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My friend, Mark Farrall, has also pointed out that as the value we are changing is a JavaScript property you can change it using the following JavaScript code, which could be included in an Appearance or similar, as an alternative method of delivering this customisation :
$('.hasDatepicker').datepicker('option','numberOfMonths', 1)
The above WebLingo, as well as the JavaScript approach, can be futher refined with additional OScript or JavaScript if you are seeking to target only a subset of the Date attribute on the page or only want the change for a specific Date attribute in a specific Category etc.
