calendar widget in metadata capture form?

kisnak

I have a text field in my metadata capture form ,which should be populated with the date selected by the user in the calendar widget
To implement this functionality I used a cgi-callout in the text field.

PROBLEM is
The user is able to open the calendar widget by clicking the button beside the text field
but when he selects any date in the displayed widget, the selected date is not getting populated in the text field

The same kind of functionality when implemented in a DCT , works fine without any problem.

when user selects any date in widget ,following javascript function in the callout file is invoked .
The Javascript function is
As I said earlier the same function works fine for DCT.

function handle_selection(date)
{


var dateValue = $item_name;
var calloutForm = eval($form_name);


for ( i = 0 ; i < calloutForm.elements.length ; i++ )
{
if (calloutForm.elements.name == '$item_name')
{
calloutForm.elements.value = date;
break;
}
}

self.close();
}

Here is the code for text field in my metadata capture form.I removed {<,>,/} from the code so that devnet browser will not interpret the code

item name="Teamsite/Metadata/md.publishDate"
label Publish Date label
Please enter content publication
date
text size="15" maxlength="10" required="t" validation-
regex="^((19|20)[0-9][0-9]-((0[1-9])|(1[1-2]))-([1-3][0-9]))$" >

label="Show Calendar..." window-
features="width=200,height=230,resizable=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,titlebar=no"/>
text
item

ISCBorisB

The same kind of functionality when implemented in a DCT , works fine without any problem

You have problems finding opener's Form or Item. So...

What is your Version and Platform?

How did you set $form_name and $item_name in your CGI? Note that Forms themselves and posted
information differs between DCR Form and MD Form. Try

function handle_selection(date) {

   var calloutForm = eval($form_name);
   if (!calloutForm) {
      alert('Can not get the Form ' + '$form_name');
      return;
   }

   var not_found = true;
   for ( i = 0 ; i < calloutForm.elements.length ; i++ ) {
      if (calloutForm.elements.name == '$item_name') { 
         calloutForm.elements.value = date;
         not_found = false;
         break;
      }
   }

   if (not_found) {
      alert('Can not find element ' + '$item_name');
   }

   self.close();
}