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Setting a minimum and maximum allowable year in the Flex DateField control

By peterd

Categories: DateField Tags: DateField, maxYear, minYear.

The following example shows how you can set a minimum and maximum allowable year in the Flex DateField control by setting the minYear and maxYear properties.

Full code after the jump.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/12/17/setting-a-minimum-and-maximum-allowable-year-in-the-flex-datefield-control/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="top"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:DateField id="dateField"
            yearNavigationEnabled="true"
            minYear="2000"
            maxYear="2010" />

</mx:Application>

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1 Brett Walker Dec 17th, 2007 at 10:03 am

Yes, although the DateField component is terribly time-consuming/annoying when trying to choose a year that is more than 100 years back. I think the UI for this component needs to be revisited: holding down the arrow button is not really the optimal interface mechanism for this purpose. Another problem with way-back years and DateField is that DateField completely breaks on any years in the BC era (anything before 0, e.g. negative numbers).
2 Raul Riera Dec 17th, 2007 at 10:16 am

Wow, I want to know why would you need a date that old
3 John Dec 17th, 2007 at 11:54 am

I wish the time component is more user friendly as has been done on Flex AIR.