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Hi

Does anyone know how to make a date picker only allow selected dates to be inputed.  What I am looking to do is have a drop down list with all the months listed.  And when a user selects a particular month from the list, I would like the date picker to display a default begining date from that month (this I know how to do)

And then if the user selects a date from a different month a error message to display and not to allow the user to save the form until the date is corrected.

If anyone can help I would be much happy.

Thank you

James

Put a rule on your date picker where the substring-before(datepicker,"/") does not equal the month numeric of the drop down value. Then have the action be your message or mild electric shock or whatever. :)

Hi Clay,

Thanks for your help again.  I was wondering if you could explain something for me.  I understand that I create  the following rule on the datepicker - substring-before(datepicker,"/") and I understand how to set an action as a message but I am not sure how I tell the date picker that it should not equal to the month numeric of the drop down value.  Would you be able to explain this to me.    

Thank you

 James

I would setup your month picker dropdown so that the value is the numeric and the label is the text.  So January would be the label and 1 the value.  That makes it easy to set or compare the month value with the user's selection. So a user selects january you would set your date picker to concat(dropdown, "/01/07") via a rule. This sets it to the first of that month and then when they click the date picker it is on that month.  Then the rule on the datepicker would validate they picked a date from that month.

That is how I would do it.