Selection in DateTimeEditBox

Hello,

Unfortunately, that's not how the DateTimeEditBox (which is a parts-based editor) is designed to work. It was designed to allow individual parts (i.e. day, month, year) to be modified, not the entire date and/or time.

You could probably build a custom parts-based editor that leverages our MaskedTextBox. In the MaskedTextBox you could then specify a custom Mask (i.e. "\d\d/\d\d/\d\d\d\d") to allow the entry of an entire date. Then you'd include another MaskedTextBox for the time. We have a QuickStart that shows how to build a custom parts-based editor.

Could you please explain more? We do not use editor DateTimeEditBox, we only use MaskedTextBox for this requirement?

Hello,

That's correct, the DateTimeEditBox does not support the behavior you describe. So you'd have to build a custom control to achieve that behavior.

You may be able to leverage our MaskedTextBox and/or build a custom parts-editor to get the look/feel you want. It sounds like you want two parts, one for the Date and one for the Time. If that's the case, you could probably build a custom parts-editor that leverages our MaskedTextBox (to restrict input to a known format).

We have a Custom PartEditBox (SSN) QuickStart that shows how to build a custom-parts-editor for a U.S. Social Security Number. You would need to take that an change it to have two parts: one for Date and one for Time. Each of those parts has a MaskedTextBox in their control template. The MaskedTextBox can specify a mask to restrict what the user can enter. So you'd restrict the input of the Date part to only be a valid date format, and the same for time.

Hi Maria,

Unfortunately, yes. We do not have parts that display/update the entire date and/or time. Instead the parts display/update distinct elements (such as month, day, year, hour, etc).