Good thought, Adam - thanks for the feedback -- and great news that native support for a broader range of date types will be in version 4!
On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 7:28:09 PM UTC-4, Adam Cox wrote: > > Hi Angela, this looks good and I appreciate the detailed documentation on > how to install the extension. > > One thought I had is that you could move your validation into a new > dedicated file, and then leave branch-list.js alone. I did this in my > current project, in order to create a centralized location for validation > functions so I could apply them in any form. I created validation.js > <https://github.com/mradamcox/afrh/blob/master/afrh/media/js/views/forms/sections/validation.js>, > > and then used it in each form like this > <https://github.com/mradamcox/afrh/blob/master/afrh/media/js/views/forms/inventory-evaluation.js> > > (see lines 5, 9, and 80). I have two basic functions in there now, but > have thought that a simple nodeIsDigit() would be good to add. > > I set things up this way because I didn't want to bloat branch-list.js, in > fact, I don't even need it in my app at all. > > Anyway, the extension looks useful, and I look forward to giving it a try > soon. > > Adam > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Alexei Peters <ape...@fargeo.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi Angela, >> It's great that you guys were able to extend Arches v3 to support fuzzy >> dates. Including fuzzy dates natively has definitely been on our radar and >> will be included in v4. >> Thanks for contributing back to the community! >> Cheers, >> Alexei >> >> >> Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173 >> >> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Angela Labrador <ala...@gmail.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Greetings! >>> >>> While learning how Arches works and testing it out in house, we found >>> that adding Extended Date/Time Format >>> <http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/pre-submission.html>support to >>> Arches date fields would possibly benefit users who need to manage a wider >>> range of dates in their inventory system: dates such as "about 1800" or >>> date ranges such as "1934 - present". >>> >>> We've developed a validation function that can handle such date strings >>> while maintaining consistency and basic integrity for search in Arches. The >>> feature is available to the community at our Github repository along >>> with more detailed technical documentation >>> <https://github.com/coherit/edtf-arches-hip> for installing and >>> testing. Our recent blog article >>> <http://www.coherit.com/blog/fuzzy-dates-edtf-arches/> provides some >>> background as well. >>> >>> Please try it out -- we welcome all contributions and issue reports at >>> our repo! >>> >>> Hope this helps out some folks, >>> Angela Labrador, PhD. >>> Coherit Associates, LLC >>> >>> -- >>> -- To post, send email to arches...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. To >>> unsubscribe, send email to archesprojec...@googlegroups.com >>> <javascript:>. For more information, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Arches Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to archesprojec...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> -- To post, send email to arches...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. To >> unsubscribe, send email to archesprojec...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more information, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Arches Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to archesprojec...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
