DatePicker textbox doesn't honor non-selectable days in calendar

[Chris]

I suppose this is an enhancement suggestion:

The special days feature of the calendar allows you to prevent the user from selecting certain days.  It would be very helpful if the textbox in the date picker were to disallow dates that are non-selectable in the child calendar.

Short of adding that feature, is there a code sample of how to query the special days client side for use in validating the text box?

Thanks,
Chris Beck

[Giuseppe]

Hi Chris,

There is no exposed public API for this but you could use the specialDaysArray property of the calendar control to extract the necessary information:

<telerik:RadCalendar ID="RadCalendar1" runat="server">
    <SpecialDays>
        <telerik:RadCalendarDay Date="2008/1/4" />
        <telerik:RadCalendarDay Date="2008/1/5" />
    </SpecialDays>
</telerik:RadCalendar>

<script type="text/javascript">
function pageLoad()
{
    var calendar = $find("RadCalendar1");
    var specialDays = calendar.get_specialDaysArray();
    for (var i=0; i < specialDays.length; i++)
    {
        var specialDay = specialDays[i];

        // this is the date triplet [year, month, day] that can be converted into a JavaScript Date
        var dateTriplet = specialDay[1];
        var jsDate = new Date(dateTriplet[0], (dateTriplet[1] - 1), dateTriplet[2]);
        alert(jsDate);
    }
}
</script>

We have logged your feedback on the disabling dates in the input control as well.



Regards,
Manuel
the Telerik team

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