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dateTimeSelect()

Description

Builds and returns a string containing six select form controls (three for date selection and the remaining three for time selection) based on the supplied objectName and property.

Function Syntax

dateTimeSelect(objectName, property [, dateOrder, dateSeparator, startYear, endYear, monthDisplay, timeOrder, timeSeparator, minuteStep, separator, includeBlank, label, labelPlacement, prepend, append, prependToLabel, appendToLabel, errorElement ])

Parameters

Parameter Type Required Default Description
objectName string Yes The variable name of the object to build the form control for.
property string Yes The name of the property to use in the form control.
dateOrder string No month,day,year See documentation for dateSelect().
dateSeparator string No See documentation for dateSelect().
startYear numeric No 2004 First year in select list.
endYear numeric No 2014 Last year in select list.
monthDisplay string No names Pass in names, numbers or abbreviations to control display.
timeOrder string No hour,minute,second See documentation for timeSelect().
timeSeparator string No : See documentation for timeSelect().
minuteStep numeric No 1 Pass in 10 to only show minute 10, 20,30 etc.
separator string No - Use to change the character that is displayed between the first and second set of select tags.
includeBlank any No false Whether to include a blank option in the select form control. Pass true to include a blank line or a string that should represent what display text should appear for the empty value (for example, "- Select One -").
label string No The label text to use in the form control.
labelPlacement string No around Whether to place the label before, after, or wrapped around the form control.
prepend string No String to prepend to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control around HTML tags.
append string No String to append to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control around HTML tags.
prependToLabel string No String to prepend to the form control's label. Useful to wrap the form control around HTML tags.
appendToLabel string No String to append to the form control's label. Useful to wrap the form control around HTML tags.
errorElement string No span HTML tag to wrap the form control with when the object contains errors.

Examples

<!--- view code --->
<cfoutput>
<p>#dateTimeSelect(objectName="article", property="publishedAt")#</p>
</cfoutput>