Date Picker visbile by default in Apex.

Hi All,
I have created two date pickers by default i will be dsiplaying only one, but when they click on that link i wil diplsay the other date picker report.
I have created demo in my application but that is showing fine in 4.0 version but when i had tried in lower version 3.0 the date picker calendar is showing by deafult. But no erros are dsiplayed in script.
Can you please let us know how we can hide the samll part of calendar icon.
Here is an examplei had created whcih is replaicted what i had done im original application.
workspace-apex_demo_bosu
[email protected]
password-bosuseshu
URL is http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=19104:1:246873615402401:::::
Thanks,
Anoo..

I realized you were talking about a form with an "Automatic Row Fetcher" after I had clicked submit;
Let me see if I can understand this:
you have a date column in your table (I hope it is a date)
you have created a "form on a table" page that has an Automatic Row Fetcher process in it.
If the row you are displaying has a value for the date column, you want that value to show up in the Date Picker item type (this should already happen)
If the row you are displaying does not have a value, you want the Date Picker to have a default value of sysdate. (eg a NEW row of data)
If #3 is not happening, let us know.
#4 just requires a process that runs after the Automatic Row Fetcher.
eg
begin
if :P11_DATE is null
then
:P11_DATE := to_char(sysdate, 'DD-MM-YYYY');
end if;
end;
I'm sure there is better way to do it. I just don't know it right off.
Mk

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Apex specification :
version 4.2.1.00.08
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Doug

Doug,
Now lets say l want everythingCould you post some sample data and the output that you want to get..? It would be much easy to understand the requirements...
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user12296343 wrote:
Hello All,
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Thanks for your time.
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nope, still same problem.
I used javascript alerts to help debug, and here might be some useful information.
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Line: 17
Char: 1448
Code: 0
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report error:
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