No calendar please!

Question

We startet a PDF-Form in Acrobat XI - and define a text-field with the format "date.
Then we have to open the form in ES4 and save it. But the date-field gets automatic this calendar, we dont want!!
Can we remove this feature???
thanx in anticipation!

Answer 1

Hi,
if you don't want to use the calendar widget you will have to use a text field with a script to check the entered data for a valid date format.
As an example:
If you put this script into the text fields exit event, it will warn the user if the entered data has not the format dd/mm/yyyy or d/m/yy or d.m.yyyy with separators: . - /.
var str = this.rawValue,
          regExp = /^([0]?[1-9]|[1|2][0-9]|[3][0|1])[.\/-]([0]?[1-9]|[1][0-2])[.\/-]([0-9]{4}|[0-9]{2})$/g;
if (!str.match(regExp)) {
          if (xfa.host.messageBox("This is not a valid date", "Invalid date", 0, 0) === 2) {
                    this.rawValue = "";
                    xfa.host.setFocus(this.somExpression);