Callout button for calendar in datacapture.cfg

Hi,

My datacapture.cfg consists of an item "START_DATE".
item name="START_DATE"
label : Start Date
description :The date this content will become available: format "mm/dd/yyyy".
text required="f" maxlength="100" size="30" validation-regex"..."
cgi-callout url="/ts-bin/united_states/us_date.cgi" label="Get Date" window-features="width=320,height=200,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes"/

The above code is calling a cgi script which in turn callout a calendar popup. I don't want the intermediate level i.e, the cgi script. I want datacapture.cfg in such a way that as soon as we click the callout button(Get Date), the calendar popup should come.

Kindly provide some suggestions.

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RonaldV

"the calendar popup should come."

Do you mean one of these nice looking ajax-like calendar-widget instead of the new-window-popup?

If yes, good luck. I don't think that is possible. And if it is possible with some nasty workaround I would advise against it for reason of complexity and long-term-support.

Ronald

Evani20

Still your rquirement is not clear, try to write little more detail what exactly you want to do. Opening a calendar form its pretty straight forward and simple as well. Try to attach your cgi file.

Good luck

Rit

Thanks Ronald & Evani... I got the solution...

Actually, my problem was :-
I wanted a calendar callout in my DCT, by calling us_date.cgi directly in the DCT as :
callout url="/iw-bin/us_date.cgi" label="GetDate" window-features="width=200,height=230,resizable=no,toolbar=no,scrol lbars=no,titlebar=no"

Anujap

Hi Rit,

Could you please how you did..I also have same requirement?

Thanks

Rit

Hi Anuj,

I have attached the code alongwith. Tell me in case of any problem.