date fields

Hi Everyone,

I'm working on a simple resume page on my personal site using CCK and Views. The view displays the fields in the custom content-type "position," sorted descending by the "from date." Each position has a "from date" and an optional "to date."

I have been trying to shoehorn a specific form into drupal using cck and views, then date api with cck and views, and it just ain't working. :) What I am trying to do is track when issues of a magazine arrive. So I want fields for title and issue, and fields that can be filled in when the magazine arrives. I could do this with MySQL and PHP, but in this particular situation end user access would be easier if I could put it on a drupal site. Does anyone know of a module that might fill the bill?

Thanks,
Carol

Getting Drupal to emit screen-reader friendly dates is a pain in the butt. It can, however, be done. Here's a detailed account of my efforts on that score, complete with tests in two screen readers (including MP3s for your listening pleasure), some analysis, and a detailed walk through of customizing the code for a DATE element.

After a successful fundraising effort and a lot of hard work, I'm pleased to announce that the Signup module has made some major leaps forward in the recent past:

• Supports CCK date fields for reminder emails and auto-close functionality (#86462). You can have both event and date enabled on the same site. For CCK date node types, you select which date field you want to use for signup functionality when configuring the node type.
• Ported to Drupal 6, Views2, etc. The 6.x-1.0-rc1 release candidate is now out.

There are a ton of other improvements too numerous to list here. For details, check out the 5.x-2.6 and 5.x-2.5 release notes.

Hi There
I have been trying to filter view with the cck date field, and can't make it to work , i am missing something...

I have an defined event content type with a start date & end date
I have created an events view that i wish to filter as a start date with the logic :

1. if no argument has been sent to the view than start_date >= now
2. if a date parameter has been sent then start_date >= arg[0]

if have 3 filters , first 2 are published and term id , and another filter "start_date" "greater or equal to" and set the value to "now"

in the arguments i have set the code

Hi,
I'm using views.module (altogether with some other modules) to run an events site for my town. I'm trying to get some views from the events nodes (CCK content type) but I don't have a clue how to filter them properly.

Since part of the purpose of this group is to track views development, I thought I would share my solution for creating flexible date range arguments for the Date module.

Creating arguments for date fields is hard because there are so many possible ways people might want to use them. You may need to find a full date or a part of a date or you may want to look for a date + duration or maybe specify that the duration will start on the current date or some other date, etc. etc. In creating arguments for dates I have been finding that the list of arguments in views gets longer and longer, but no matter how many you create, someone will always come back and ask for another type of argument.

You can look at the basic work I did yesterday on making a date field widget in my sandbox. There is also an issue in the CCK issue queue to address the code.

Someone please take over. At least parts of my approach are quite good and can be used in a final solution. Other bits are clearly a fudge because a final solution is going to be a lot of work.

Known issues:

• Day seems to be offset by -1 after going through format_date
• Time zone support is nonexistant

So, I just came upon another painful event bugaboo (as pasted in from Richard, when he was troubleshooting):

The navigation on the monthly view only goes up until the last months with events scheduled. sort of, there's some wriggles around what day of the month the event is posted for.

(you can, of course, hack the URL to show empty months in the future, there just isn't any navigation; sorry, there is navigation, but you can only go into the past, not the future)

And then of course there is the famous default "only show the next 30 days" feature, which is confusingly in the "table" section. You can set this to 365 to show a full year, but that is a hardcoded limit: you can't show more than a year.