With this javascript function you can change the date's format in your own datepicker

• e.g. 01.01.2017
• e.g. 01-01-2017

This is the format, which is used, when storing the values in the TIM database. This way you get a pretty format for WordTemplates, Mailnodes] etc. Therefor a new datepicker has to be implemented in the custom.js, which overrides the one in TIM. In the [[en:software:tim:smartform|Smartform we need, like with the normal datepicker, input field with a class. In this example the class datefield is used.

<form initMethod="initMyDateField">
<input type="text" name="myDateField" id="myDateField" class="datefield"/> Date
</form>

jQuery is required here and must be imported!

jq= (this.form.ownerDocument.defaultView!=null) ? this.form.ownerDocument.defaultView.jQuery : this.form.ownerDocument.parentWindow.jQuery;

In the custom file the datepicker is now being initialized in the function initMyDateField (name is freely selectable)

 gadget.functions.initMyDateField = function(){
     jq= (this.form.ownerDocument.defaultView!=null) ? this.form.ownerDocument.defaultView.jQuery : this.form.ownerDocument.parentWindow.jQuery;
     jq('.datefield').datepicker(jq.datepicker.regional["de"]);
 }

The datepicker can be given different regional formats. In this example “de” was given, which leads to: 31.07.2013

There are of course further formats available, all the way to naming the weekdays and months. Therefor you can look in the jQuery API for datepicker (http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/).