Hi
We are utilising the eo:DatePicker control within an ASP.NET application used for ticket booking.
I could not seem to post screen shots to this forum but i have included a link to the booking system.

http://www.sarkshippingcompany.com/BookOnline/tabid/58/Default.aspx

The control is working well in the live website except that we would like the date to be displayed but ONLY allowing the date to be chosen by clicking the calendar image control to the right of the date textbox.

We dont want users typing in dates that are not possible for booking. Dates are loaded into the dropdown control and the user cannot select a date that has not been loaded as available.


However currently when the tesxt box is acive users can type directly into the date text box and they can type any date they like including dates which do not have possible bookings, After exiting the textbox the date resets to a previous date entry that is valid which is causing confusion.

We tried using the “DisableTextBox” property.

However this does not seem to allow us to set the correct look on the box and also seems to allow the user to double click the text at any time. We need to disable the text box until the user has selected an outward journey from the first dropdown list.

Is there any way to keep the eo.datepicker box as is but only allow selection from the image/calendar icon and not allow the user to type directly into the textbox.
If you require any further information please contact me.

Many thanks,
Les
Project Manager

Hi,

We have tried the Popupcalendar and as it is only text it does not match in with the rest of the screen as all the other fields are boxes to enter in to.
The problem that we have is that we have a system that uploads a db with a series of sailings on specific dates.
The users book thier tickets on this site and we only want the users to be able to select a date via the datepicker. If they select only from the calendar the picker box would then be populated with that selected sailing date if it is available. On days not available for sailing that day on the calendar can not be selected. (as its greyed out). Once a valid date has been selected it allows them to move to the next box to select a sailing for that day.
Currently a user can enter a date into the date picker of say 01/12/2009 and if there is a sailing that day all is ok and it will populate the next field (sailing time) with time available that day. They then carry on and pay.
However, if there is no sailing that day and they enter 01/12/2009 when they click off that box the date reverts to the last available date before the 01/12/2009 and the a lot of users are not noticing that it has changed. It then offers them sailing times for the last available date and then if they have not realised the date changed they pay and dont realise until they read thier confirmation or turn up for a boat that is not sailiing.
Its a pain but that just about states why we cant let them type into the datepicker but we need the date picker box to keep the site design the same all the way through.
I hope this clarifies the problem we have.
Thanks Les