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Hello,

When I upgraded to Joomla 3.3 I am now having problems with the MooTools date picker. It does not work anymore on my forms (the calendar does not pop up). If I go into the admin backend and click on the "Front View", the date picker also does not work. However, if I go into the Form Wizard and click on "Test Form", the date picker works fine.

I went to MooTools and see that they have a version 2.2.0 but I'm not sure how to install that or if that will even fix the issue.I'm running the site on a Ubuntu 12.04 server and don't know if I have to install java on this or not.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

Hello chriso0258,
I'm not a Chrono professional, but after checking your new post, I think that the following links may help:
Date control using CFv5 date picker element
How can I format a date in the datepicker?
How can I set a default date for a datepicker?
How can I set start and end dates for a datepicker?
Datepicker problems with FireFox
P.S: I'm just an automated service😉

Sorry, none of these references helps my situation.

Hi chriso0258,

I'm not aware of any problems with the CFv4 MooTools datepicker on Joomla 3 :-( Please post a link to the form so I can take a quick look.

Bob

Hi GreyHead. Thanks for your reply. Here is a link to the site:
http://www.itswebsite.jesusmylord.org/

I will pm you with login information.

Thanks for taking a look.

Hi chriso0258,

I haven't seen a PM from you with the site login?

Bob

Thanks for letting me know. I sent one a day or two ago but must have inadvertently changed the address because it showed up in my inbox. I just sent you the info.

Hi GreyHead, I know you are busy so I don't mean to be pushy but want to make sure you got the pm.

Hi Chris,

There's a JavaSCript error on the page I found - you didn't say which from to look at - with this JavaScript

window.addEvent('load', function() {
  document.id('Region').addEvent('change', function(){

There's doesn't appear to be anything in the form with an ID=Region

Bob

Hi GreyHead,

Sorry about that. Probably the easiest page to go to on the fron side is Equipment Movement Options -> Transfer Equipment. Then click on any of the State Tag numbers to take you to the transfer form. On the form is a "Date of Move". No calendar opens up.

However, if you go in the back end and go to ChronoForms -> mis_equip Form App (from the drop down menu -> equiptransfer (Wizard edit) and then click on Test Form, the date picker calendar will come up. I'm not sure why the javascript error on the live page but not on the test page.

Thanks.

Hello GreyHead,

What is the difference in the various "views" of forms? In the forms manager, using "Front View", the date picker doesn't work. However, using "Test Form" in the form wizard, the date picker works fine. If I understood the difference in what the Front view is / is not using verses the "Test Form" view, maybe I could track this down.

When I use the web console in firefox, I get a "Empty string passed to getElementById()." message. I'm not sure what that message means. I don't get it when I use "Test Form".

Thanks for any suggestions.

Hi chriso0258,

The difference is that the Front View shows the form with the template and the Test View shows it without the template (technically it adds &tmpl=component to the URL).

If the form date-picker / validation / etc. is working without the template but not with it that's usually - i.e. 98% of the time - a sign that something else on the page has a JavaScript error that is stopping the ChronoForms scripts running correctly.

The error there suggests that some script is trying to load an element but hasn't provided an id for the element. Checking which script that is in should give you a clue about which part of the page is causing it.

Bob