Force date box to use popup.

Question

I would like to force users to have to use the date picker popup window to select dates, due to formatting issues. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Rodney:
This is what we've thought of at our company. Unfortunately they want a better solution:
put in a note for users "Date format must be MM/DD/YYYY or MM/DD/YY, or you can use MM-DD-YY, MM-DD-YYYY" and use the appropriate PL/SQL to convert to dates.
select to_char(to_date('06-06-06','MM/DD/YY'),'MM/DD/YYYY') from dual
comes out fine as I'm sure you already know. Processes conditionally based on length of the date.
Problem is that our users are going to want to enter it as June 06, 2005. We can process this via SQL like (which converts easily to PLSQL again and can conditional process)
select to_char(to_date('June 6, 2006','Month DD, YYYY'),'MM/DD/YYYY') from dual
I'm just wondering if there's an easier way, since this means that there will be 4 processes for each date in theory.