In 1.7DR calenadar works well but slow.

Is communication with server really neccesery when partialSubmit="false" and rendered="true" and user
don't need any submit's?

Parameter immediate="false" probalbly also do not work.

When user enter invalid date and press tab key validation is done immediatly and displayed in <ice:message>

Right, when partialSubmit="false", it should not communicate with the server, until and actual form submission takes place. Although I do believe that immediate="true" and immediate="false" do work as intended. I believe that the issue you mentioned is still because of partialSubmit.

I too, am in need of something done here. Currently, we have quite a few date fields in our application. The selectInputDate component does a partialSubmit 3 times when 0 are required (1 when the calendar button is first clicked, 1 when a date is selected, and 1 when the date input field loses focus).

There is one case in which unexpected behavior can occur. On any given form with a selectInputDate, if a user fills out a date field manually and then immediately clicks the submit button, 2 posts are sent (1 for the date field losing focus and 1 for the submit button). In this case, unexpected behaviour can occur.

The calendar rendering code is all server side, that is why it uses partialSubmits as you interact with it. The only thing that would be done, when partialSubmit=false, is to make it so that onblur of the text input field will not cause a partialSubmit. The calendar interactions would still necessitate partialSubmits.

Thanks Mark,

I understand now the reason for the submit on the calendar, since when the calendar button is used, a server action must take place.

To solve my problem, I've added the following to my custom SelectInputDateRenderer encodeEnd class:

inputNode.setAttribute(HTML.ONBLUR_ATTR, "setFocus('');");

(FYI I needed a custom renderer class already to allow for the component to be disabled, so it was a very simple change)!

Now, for selectInputDate components with renderAsPopup="true", if you set partialSubmit="false" then the text INPUT field's onblur will not cause a partialSubmit. No submission to the server will happen at all, in that case. Setting partialSubmit="false" will not affect any other aspect of submissions for selectInputDate.

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icefaces\component-metadata\src\main\resources\conf\ice_properties\ice-att-partialsubmit-true-props.xml
icefaces\component\src\com\icesoft\faces\component\ext\HtmlInputText.java
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