Hi Vincent, Here's the status of dates and the collection of date information in v4. As it stands v4.0.0 will only be able to collect date information in the few specific formats that you mention above: YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM and YYYY If you only want to collect YYYY then you need to remember to set the format in the Card Designer (see attached screen shot). I've verified that this will not add -01-01 to the date saved. As for the backend validation, we will try to sync that up before the release of v4.
In the very near future(next couple of months) we will be addressing the "fuzzy date" issue so that users can collect anything that relates to a point or range of time and that won't force users to enter specific formats. Eg: you could just specify the string '*late third century B.C.*' Allowing something like this to participate in search will be the real trick, but I think it's at least partially achievable! Hope this helps. Cheers, Alexei Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173 On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 4:14 AM, Vincent Meijer <meijer.vinc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alexei, > > What is the current status of fuzzy dates in Arches 4? > > I have been looking at the Arches code, and it seems the frontend > DatePicker only allows YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM and YYYY (*but no B.C.*). > However, in practice the datepicker automatically adds 01-01 when I only > enter a year. > The backend seems to have it's own date validation: > '-%Y','%Y','%Y-%m-%d','%B-%m-%d','%Y-%m-%d > %H:%M:%S' > > I think being able to specify years only and B.C. years would be a good > start for our use case, but this would require that our users translate '*late > third century B.C.*' to something like '*-210*'. Seems sketchy. > > However, I just started thinking about this and maybe there are better > solutions. Thoughts welcome! > > Thanks! > Vincent > > > On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:57:30 UTC+2, Angela Labrador wrote: > >> 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> >>> 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> >>>> 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. To unsubscribe, >>>>> send email to archesprojec...@googlegroups.com. 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