V9: which asset provides date picker?

Developing with Concrete
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The date picker in v8 was provided by the ‘jquery/ui’ asset. Now it’s gone and the date picker is not available for non admin users in the front end. How do I load it? Which asset?

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Looks like it’s ‘core/cms’. Requiring this asset loads the date picker. But why should users download a 2MB cms.js just for a date picker? Is there a way to only load the jquery-ui like it used to be in v8?

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The in-browser ‘date’ input types are pretty good with current browsers. The concrete form helper now supports doing a simple $form->date(…) like you would $form->text(…) etc., and that sidesteps the entire problem.

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@JohntheFish , thank you! That works.

Is there any way to remove the date placeholder from the date input without ‘webkit’?

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Ran into this issue today also. The built in form block still tries to use the jQuery UI datepicker if you have a date/time field, which is broken unless your theme pulls in all of core/cms or you manually add jQuery UI to your theme. My fix in page_theme.php registerAssets():

$al = \Concrete\Core\Asset\AssetList::getInstance();
$al->register('css', 'jquery/ui', 'css/jquery-ui.css');
$al->register('javascript', 'jquery/ui', 'https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.13.2/jquery-ui.min.js', ['local' => false]);
$al->registerGroup('jquery/ui', [
    ['javascript', 'jquery/ui'],
    ['css', 'jquery/ui']
]);
$this->requireAsset('jquery/ui');
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Hi @chemmett - it would probably be worth seeing if an issue exists for this and if not reporting it so it can get fixed in future versions - Thanks!

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Thanks, @EvanCooper! I did find some open issues surrounding this like [v9] bug: Datetime picker widget in Dashboard has no Next/Prev icons and not loading in frontend · Issue #10099 · concretecms/concretecms · GitHub so they’re aware of the issue. It sounds like the fix they’re going for is to switch the form date/time fields to use native HTML5 inputs rather than jQuery UI.
I also filed this bug about the rating form widget Multiple form helpers broken · Issue #11138 · concretecms/concretecms · GitHub which has the same root cause.

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The core form helper class now adapts to any html5 input type (including date) specifically for this purpose.

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Yep, I think really all that needs done is change the form blocks to use $formHelper->inputType() for date/time fields instead of the old DateTime helper class. I might try to work on this soon.

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Nice, thanks for submitting those bugs - I shot you over the bug reporter badge. It’s appreciated!