I have been searching for a solution to this problem and need help desperately.

I need to add a calendar to a record update form that will allow me to add a date of birth at least as far back as 1960 preferable 1950 to 2020

Can anyone help me? I really need an answer as soon as possible.

Thanks to all.

I hope it's not already too late (unfortunately, if it is, I hope it can help others)...

This is a jQuery feature (DMXzone Calendar is based on the jQuery datepicker)...

By default, it shows 10 years before and 10 years after.

You can add in the code a parameter that will allow you to change the date range.

Here's an exerpt from jQuery's documentation:
"Control the range of years displayed in the year drop-down: either relative to today's year (-nn:+nn), relative to the currently selected year (c-nn:c+nn), absolute (nnnn:nnnn), or combinations of these formats (nnnn:-nn). Note that this option only affects what appears in the drop-down, to restrict which dates may be selected use the minDate and/or maxDate options."

So, in your case, you could add: yearRange : "1950:2020" or yearRange : "1950:+10" if you don't want to have to update it later...

Now, where to put that??
In code view, with version 1.0.6 (latest out today), you should see something similar to this:
defaultDate : "+0"
}).attr("readonly", "readonly";})
// ]]>
</script>
The first line depends on your options... So, after the last option (defaultDate : "+0" in this case), add a coma and then the yearRange option. So, in your case, it would give something like that:
defaultDate : "+0",
yearRange : "1950:2020"
}).attr("readonly", "readonly";})
// ]]>
</script>

By the way, since it's for a date of birth, it's not really logical to allow years after this year, so you could instead put yearRange : "1950:+0", which will put this year... or for example yearRange : "1950:-13" if you don't want people under 13 (for example) to access your site...

Hello,

For now this option is out of the UI.

We will see to add it in the future.

Regards,

Thank you so much. This really helped tremendously! Now I understand much more clearly. Although I am hopeful that this will become an option in the Extension's U.I. soon.

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I hope it's not already too late (unfortunately, if it is, I hope it can help others)...

This is a jQuery feature (DMXzone Calendar is based on the jQuery datepicker)...

By default, it shows 10 years before and 10 years after.

You can add in the code a parameter that will allow you to change the date range.

Here's an exerpt from jQuery's documentation:
"Control the range of years displayed in the year drop-down: either relative to today's year (-nn:+nn), relative to the currently selected year (c-nn:c+nn), absolute (nnnn:nnnn), or combinations of these formats (nnnn:-nn). Note that this option only affects what appears in the drop-down, to restrict which dates may be selected use the minDate and/or maxDate options."

So, in your case, you could add: yearRange : "1950:2020" or yearRange : "1950:+10" if you don't want to have to update it later...

Now, where to put that??
In code view, with version 1.0.6 (latest out today), you should see something similar to this:
defaultDate : "+0"
}).attr("readonly", "readonly";})
// ]]>
</script>
The first line depends on your options... So, after the last option (defaultDate : "+0" in this case), add a coma and then the yearRange option. So, in your case, it would give something like that:
defaultDate : "+0",
yearRange : "1950:2020"
}).attr("readonly", "readonly";})
// ]]>
</script>

By the way, since it's for a date of birth, it's not really logical to allow years after this year, so you could instead put yearRange : "1950:+0", which will put this year... or for example yearRange : "1950:-13" if you don't want people under 13 (for example) to access your site...