PopupTemplate : dateFormat

Question

Since the dateFormat defers to dojo.date.locale.format anyway, is there a good reason why it's been limited to only support the following:*     "shortDate":            "(datePattern: 'M/d/y', selector: 'date')",
*     "longMonthDayYear":     "(datePattern: 'MMMM d, y', selector: 'date')", 
*     "dayShortMonthYear":    "(datePattern: 'd MMM y', selector: 'date')", 
*     "longDate":             "(datePattern: 'EEEE, MMMM d, y', selector: 'date')", 
*     "shortDateShortTime":   "(datePattern: 'M/d/y', timePattern: 'h:mm a', selector: 'date and time')", 
*     "shortDateShortTime24": "(datePattern: 'M/d/y', timePattern: 'H:mm', selector: 'date and time')", 
*     "longMonthYear":        "(datePattern: 'MMMM y', selector: 'date')", 
*     "shortMonthYear":       "(datePattern: 'MMM y', selector: 'date')",
*     "year":                 "(datePattern: 'y', selector: 'date')"

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__Rich_ · Answer

"and handles an array of deferreds complete with paging, and handles highlighting features, and looks better etc."

You can get all that using the InfoTemplate with the PopupWindow. The only thing you miss out on is the easy way to define content (media, images, attachments, charts) via the popup template.

Sorry was getting confused between windows and templates!

Yep, but I'm going to want all those other things pretty soon, particularly the attachments.

Thanks for the response, I'm just trying to check my understanding of the limitations.

khutchins · Answer

"and handles an array of deferreds complete with paging, and handles highlighting features, and looks better etc."

You can get all that using the InfoTemplate with the PopupWindow. The only thing you miss out on is the easy way to define content (media, images, attachments, charts) via the popup template.

__Rich_ · Answer

The Popup is just a custom InfoWindow that adds some additional capabilities like zoom to selected.

...and handles attachments automatically, and handles an array of deferreds complete with paging, and handles highlighting features, and looks better etc. 🙂You can use the Info Template or the PopupTemplate or a function to define the content for your popup window. If your popup window only contains formatted text (numbers, dates, strings etc) then the InfoTemplate with the Popup Window should work just fine.

See above.....anything else you try to provide is overwritten by the defaults.

Not if you mixin some additional ones 😉
 You can submit an enhancement asking that we support this capability by contacting Esri Support.

I hope that some of the enhancements required by customers are picked up from the forum discusssions 😉

Here's my request:

Please allow developers to pass a dojo.date.locale.__FormatOptions object as the value for the dateFormat property of the format object in a fieldInfo element of the object passed to the constructor of PopupTemplate thus removing the restrictions imposed by the current approach.

This will enable, for example, a date/time to be shown in the time zone of the remote user of the system...which is quite a common thing to want to do when you have a global GIS application.

Thanks.