Problem with calendar on join page

In the join page, people need to give their birth date, but the calendar doesn't show and you can't enter the field to add a date manually. Since this is a mandatory field, no one can join my site anymore.

What could be the problem ???

Several people are having problems with this..

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Date-of-Birth-field-broken-for-Chrome-v24-in-7-0-9.htm

Hi Newton27,

I noticed a while after I wrote my post that this already was a problem.

Strange that this comes with the latest version of Dolphin and nothing has been done to fix it. In my case (and I think in most cases of dating or community sites) , this is a mandatory field in the join page, so no one can join the site anymore ???

I think this should be considered as a priority to fix.

I got same problem on all my sites which I have upgraded

I agree, the birthdate is important.

I just want the standard drop down list for year, month and day.

Anybody have any ideas?

P.

This has been discussed before although I don't know if anyone has done it.  It requires a rewrite of the code, completely removing and inserting a new function to handle this.  It also needs to store the date in the database with the proper format; not sure if that is using a unix timestamp or a special format so one would need to exclaim the format first.

The easy fix for now is to make Date Of Birth field not mandatory, so that users don't have to fill out that field when they register.

To make Date Of Birth not mandatory in Join form you need to go to Control Panel---Builder--Profile Fields , then look for DateofBirth and click on it, then click on Advance and uncheck the Mandatory option. see attached image.

I suppose one could then add a Date of Birth section in which you have the month, day, and year as separate inputs.  Then you could write code in the join form processor to convert those inputs into the proper format to enter into the DoB field in the database.  You could also store each input in the database as well to use in forms and output.  This should not be that difficult of a task.

This post also outlines that not all the cutesy things should be done just because they can be done.  I find the calendar inputs, not just on Dolphin but other sites as well, a bit on the clunky side.  You have to click, click, click, click, to get your month, and then click, click, click, to get to your year.  Either use the drop-down or let members type in the numerals.

Amen Geek Gyrl!!!

Dolphin Jay is looking into making a mod for me..

P.

Deano has a module for this.. priced right and it works.

We no have an easy to use birthdate selector.

Peer