[Vtigercrm-developers] Vtlib date field problem

[Prasad]

Thank you for the pointer.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Darjan Prtic <dprtic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hm...
>
> Yes it is but there is no mentioning about what values are accepted. In
> example you provided VARCHAR(100) and as default value is VARCHAR(255). It
> should say somewhere that values for column type could be DB column types.
> With hint for Date fields especially.
>
> Darjan Prtic
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 16:29, Prasad <prasad at vtiger.com> wrote:
>
>> This hint is captured in Step 3 of vtlib documentation.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Darjan Prtic <dprtic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Prasad!
>>>
>>> It would be nice if you put it in next vtlib documentation release.
>>>
>>>
>>> Darjan Prtic
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 04:53, Prasad <prasad at vtiger.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You need to explicitly set the columntype to avoid the default datatype.
>>>> $field5->columntype = 'DATE';
>>>>
>>>> NOTE: If the column already exists in the table, the datatype will not
>>>> be altered.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Prasad
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Darjan Prtic <dprtic at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all!
>>>>>
>>>>> I have created date field for my custom module like this
>>>>> =====
>>>>> $field5 = new Vtiger_Field();
>>>>> $field5->name = 'startdate';
>>>>> $field5->label = 'Start Date';
>>>>> $field5->uitype = 5;
>>>>> $field5->typeofdata = 'D~O';
>>>>> $field5->displaytype = 1;
>>>>> $block2->addField($field5);
>>>>> =====
>>>>> why is this field in vtiger_my_custom_module not created as date column
>>>>> but as Varchar? Am i doing something wrong or it is a bug in vtlib?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your replies!
>>>>> Darjan Prtic
>>>>>
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