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Gotcha for validating the textfield of the SharePoint DateTime control

2 Comments Posted by on April 11, 2012

If you’re planning to use the SharePoint date time control. a good place to start is the followiing: http://karinebosch.wordpress.com/sharepoint-controls/datetimecontrol-control/ It won’t tell you how to use validation controls in combination with it, and there’s an important gotcha involved. If you want to access the textfield rendered by the SharePoint date time control, you need to set the ControlToValidate property to the name of the control in the following format: [control id]$[control id]Date, for example: MyControl$MyControlDate, like so:

<SharePoint:DateTimeControl runat=”server” ID=”MyControl” DateOnly=”true” ShowWeekNumber=”true” LocaleId=”1043″ IsRequiredField=”true” />
<SharePoint:InputFormCustomValidator runat=”server” ID=”MyCustomValidator” ControlToValidate=”MyControl$MyControlDate”
Display=”Dynamic” SetFocusOnError=”true” OnServerValidate=”ValidateFromDateControl” />

Also see: http://www.greggalipeau.com/2008/06/27/sharepoint-datetimecontrol-validation/

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2 responses to “Gotcha for validating the textfield of the SharePoint DateTime control”

  1. Eirik Johannessen October 16, 2014 at 9:22 am

    Is it only me or is this even worse in SharePoint 2013 ? I get ctl00$PlaceHolderMain$FieldName$ctl00$DateTimeField$DateTimeFieldDate

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