Time Picker for Qty Hour Segments in Asp.net MVC - asp.net

I need to create an control in asp.net mvc that allows the user to select a time that is anywhere between 7am and 7pm with quarter hour segments. i.e. The user could select:
7:00am
7:15am
7:30am
7:45am
8:00am
8:15am
....
....
7:00pm
Currently ive got a dropdown that comprises of a select list with entries for every single time slot. Just wondering if anyone knows a cleaner and or better UI experience for the user.
Thanks in advance

I suggest you looking into a JQuery addon: Timepicker.
It is easy to set up, simple in use, and it looks great.
For easy access put this code into your Layout view in the section:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('.timepicker').live('mousedown', function () {
$(this).timepicker({
stepMinute: 15,
hourMin: 7,
hourMax: 19
});
});
});
</script>
In your view have something like this:
#Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Time, new { #class = #"timepicker" })
Another JQuery option is Timepickr. I don't like it as much as the first one, but it still is a good option.

The Telerik DateTime Picker can handle this. It defaults to an interval every half-hour, but you can configure it to display any interval you want, such as your 15 minutes. It integrates with their date picker, in case you want a combined datetime picker.
It is a drop-down list, like yours, but they tend to have a lot of whiz-bang chrome on their stuff, so you might be able to configure it in other display formats.
I believe the Telerik MVC controls are free to download and use, but you have to pay if you want support.

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How to add time widget/picker?

New appmaker user here.
I'm trying to port the work permits approval "app" I made with G Suite form+spreadsheet+GAS; users should enter the day, the start and end time of the permit.
I can see from the Forum Sample that the Date field type is a DateTime field type, so I can use it in my model.
The problem is I cannot find the time picker in the widgets, and the date box has no option to also enter the time.
Am I missing something?
Time Pickers for App Maker
I read your question and thought I'd try to role one of my own and this is what I came up with. I put all of the buttons on a pageFragment and call it with app.showDialog(app.pageFragments.timePicker2);
I only use clientside script.
function updateOutput(){
var h=app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.hour||'00';
var m=app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.minute||'00';
var s=app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.second||'00';
var t=h + ':' + m + ':' + s;
app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.descendants.timeLBL.text=t;
return t;
}
function updateHour(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.hour=v;
updateOutput();
}
function updateMinute(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.minute=v;
updateOutput();
}
function updateSecond(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.second=v;
updateOutput();
}
Here's what my time picker looks like:
Yes. Adding all of the buttons is a nuisance but there are a few features about AppMaker that make it more tolerable.
First you can assign the TimePicker form properties which I use as global properties. I had three hour,minute and second.
Then after you add all of the hour buttons you can grab all of them at one time by clicking each one while holding down control on a windows machine and click on the onClick event and pick custom action and type this in updateHour(widget.text); the code completion won't give you text as an option but type it any way.
I just figured out how to grab the buttons all a one time by pushing shift and selecting with the mouse
Do the same thing with the minute and second buttons using updateMinute(widget.text) and updateSecond(widget.text); This saves you a lot of time typing all of the functions into each widget control panel. Also you don't have to bother giving all of the buttons special names like I did.
But you might like to format them with the following css.
And again you can grab all of the buttons at one time and change the following setting:
That way you can style all of the buttons at one time.
My save button just copies the final string into a label on the main panel.
app.pages.Testing.descendants.timeLBL2.text=app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.descendants.timeLBL.text;
app.closeDialog();
You will probably want to do something more elegant.
Here's a demo: in preview mode. Sorry about the 24 hour clock. I always use this for my own stuff because it's so much easier and I like it. You'll probably want AM & PM. I'll probably go back and do that too.
For an AM/PM Picker I used these functions:
function updateOutputAP(){
var h=app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.hour||'00';
var m=app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.minute||'00';
var s=app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.second||'00';
var ap=app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.ap||' ';
var t=h + ':' + m + ':' + s + ' ' + ap;
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.descendants.timeLBL.text=t;
return t;
}
function updateHourPM(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.hour=v;
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.ap='PM';
updateOutputAP();
}
function updateHourAM(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.hour=v;
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.ap='AM';
updateOutputAP();
}
function updateMinuteAP(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.minute=v;
updateOutputAP();
}
function updateSecondAP(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.second=v;
updateOutputAP();
}
And this is what my picker looks like:
Now that I know how to pick the components easily with the mouse it was a break to make this change.
Three AppMaker Time Pickers:
At this time App Maker doesn't provide out of the box Time or Date/Time picker widgets, it means that you need to implement one by yourself. There are at least two ways to accomplish this task:
App Maker way
Wait and hope when App Maker will introduce Time or Date/Time picker widget or use existing App Maker widgets to emulate Time Picker. Calendar Sample can be a good starting point:
Hack into DOM/JS
If you have no concerns about cross-browser compatibility and you are OK to get you hands dirty with DOM manipulation by javascript, creating events listeners and other cool stuff, then you can play with HTML widget and native date/time or time input, or even some third party library.
One simple option would be to simply use a textbox and set the validation in the model field.
You can update your Date object on save or just use as is depending on your application. You get the benefit of auto validation errors in the UI to guide your user and it takes only seconds to set up.
Regex:
\b((1[0-2]|0?[1-9]):([0-5][0-9]) ([AaPp][Mm]))

Fullcalendar Start Hour Setting by the Time of Current Hour

I am trying to use Fullcalendar in AngularJS.
I somehow implemented the calendar and it works (saves data to the SQL).
However, if I click on the day in the calendar, the modal pops up and the start date shows 00:00:00 in time aspect.
My questions is how can you set the time for the hour of current time?
If it is 9AM currently, then, how can the time in the start initialize the time as 09:00:00 ?
This is what I have for the coding.
select: function(start, end) {
$('#ModalAdd #start').val(moment(start).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'));
$('#ModalAdd #end').val(moment(end).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'));
$('#ModalAdd').modal('show');
}
I have a feeling that it would be nice to somehow modify the code below and place it within the above code, but I am stuck on where to put it.
var time = new Time();
var h = date.getHour();
I don't know it the Time() even works (it was Date() from other source).
Please can anyone help me on initializing the hour in the Fullcalendar based on the current hour? I am looking for any advice or even a hint to solve this matter.
Thank you in advance!
You can use momentJS to add the current (local) system time to the selected day:
select: function(start, end) {
var today = moment();
start.set({ hours: today.hours(), minute: today.minutes() });
$('#ModalAdd #start').val(start.format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'));
$('#ModalAdd #end').val(end.format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'));
$('#ModalAdd').modal('show');
}
See https://momentjs.com/docs/#/get-set/set/
Also it's worth mentioning that start and end are already moments, so you don't need to wrap them in the moment constructor again as you were doing before.
Another thing to consider if you do this, is whether your calendar has other views available, in particular the agenda-style views, on which selections can be made which would trigger the modal? If so, then you need to ensure that the time-manipulation code above only runs when the view is "month", because the agenda view will, by default, already use the time that the user actually chose on the calendar.

How to use kendo template expression in razor

I want to convert kendo expression to int and then query a list
like this;
<script id="history-grid-template" type="text/x-kendo-template">
#(Model.Where(x => x.ID == Convert.ToInt32("#= ID #")))
</script>
But it gives me error.
How can i do that?
Looks like you want to show some history data after clicking some button in your grid.
Your sample assumes that all data is present in the Model. I would not suggest to do that because it slows down your page load speed because all the data is loaded synchronously.
I would suggest to do an ajax (asynchronous) call and load your history data with this request. Something like: http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/custom-command
Or if all your data is present you can take a look at: http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/detailtemplate

What is the most efficient way of filling in details on a web form?

Take a standard web page with lots of text fields, drop downs etc.
What is the most efficient way in webdriver to fill out the values and then verify if the values have been entered correctly.
You only have to test that the values are entered correctly if you have some javascript validation or other magic happening at your input fields. You don't want to test that webdriver/selenium works correctly.
There are various ways, depending if you want to use webdriver or selenium. Here is a potpourri of the stuff I'm using.
Assert.assertEquals("input field must be empty", "", selenium.getValue("name=model.query"));
driver.findElement(By.name("model.query")).sendKeys("Testinput");
//here you have to wait for javascript to finish. E.g wait for a css Class or id to appear
Assert.assertEquals("Testinput", selenium.getValue("name=model.query"));
With webdriver only:
WebElement inputElement = driver.findElement(By.id("input_field_1"));
inputElement.clear();
inputElement.sendKeys("12");
//here you have to wait for javascript to finish. E.g wait for a css Class or id to appear
Assert.assertEquals("12", inputElement.getAttribute("value"));
Hopefully, the results of filling out your form are visible to the user in some manner. So you could think along these BDD-esque lines:
When I create a new movie
Then I should see my movie page
That is, your "new movie" steps would do the field entry & submit. And your "Then" would assert that the movie shows up with your entered data.
element = driver.find_element(:id, "movie_title")
element.send_keys 'The Good, the Bad, the Ugly'
# etc.
driver.find_element(:id, "submit").click
I'm just dabbling in this now, but this is what I came up with so far. It certainly seems more verbose than something like Capybara:
fill_in 'movie_title', :with => 'The Good, the Bad, the Ugly'
Hope this helps.

ASP.NET Javascript Clock

I would like to put a clock on my webpage which should show time and a timer for a particular interval.
Could you please suggest me some open source javascript to do that??
I tried unsuccessfully searching web for flash one's.
Please help.
Thanks,
Mahesh
There is JavaScript function called SetInterval that allows you to pass a callback to be executed on a specified interval of time. You can use it in order to repeat a given action over a period of time. Here is an example:
<script type="text/javascript">
function doSomething() {
alert('yahoo');
}
setInterval(doSomething, 500);
</script>
This will alert 'yahoo' оn every 500 miliseconds.
As for the clock, I suggest that you take a look at the following link

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