5448: Blanking out a date field does not save a blank date - Composr CMS feature tracker

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5448	Composr alpha bug reports	General / Uncategorised	public	2023-11-21 09:15	2025-02-25 16:09

Reporter	PDStig	Assigned To	Chris Graham
Priority	normal	Severity	minor
Status	assigned	Resolution	open

Summary	5448: Blanking out a date field does not save a blank date
Description	When blanking out an optional date / time field, it does not save. Instead, Composr maintains the previous value of the field. The expected behavior is that the date/time field would save as blank.
Additional Information	Be cautious about this because we do not want to save blank dates/times if the post param was not actually specified; we need to ensure it was actually specified as blank and not just excluded as a parameter / field.
Tags	Roadmap: v11
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PDStig 2024-10-12 21:44 administrator ~9465	This needs discussion on implementation

PDStig 2025-02-25 16:08 administrator ~9813 Last edited: 2025-02-25 16:09	I attempted to fix this as a fix is needed for the validation time feature to fully work. However, I was unsuccessful. My attempted method was to alter the API for getting date components so that it returns null for a blank date and false for no date field being provided at all. Unfortunately, this created a mess of type errors and bugs. It also created a cascade effect as altering one API resulted in having to alter several more.

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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2023-11-21 09:15	PDStig	New Issue
2023-11-21 09:15	PDStig	Status	Not Assigned => Assigned
2023-11-21 09:15	PDStig	Assigned To	=> user4172
2024-09-13 02:34	PDStig	Tag Attached: Roadmap: v11
2024-10-12 21:43	PDStig	Assigned To	user4172 => Chris Graham
2024-10-12 21:44	PDStig	Note Added: 0009465
2025-02-25 16:08	PDStig	Note Added: 0009813
2025-02-25 16:08	PDStig	Note Edited: 0009813
2025-02-25 16:09	PDStig	Note Edited: 0009813