I am sure this is something to do with how i am inserting this field; but don't see it.

i am trying to add a simple date picker field to a custom form.

i made a function:

function room_reservations_admin_date_picker($form_state) {
  $form['date'] = array(
    '#type' => 'date_popup',
    '#description' => t('my custom description text'),
    '#title' => 'my custom title',
    '#default_value' => date('Y-m-d'),
    '#date_type' => DATE_DATETIME,
    '#date_timezone' => date_default_timezone(),
    '#date_format' => 'Y-m-d',
    '#date_increment' => 1,
    '#date_year_range' => '-0:+1',
  );
    
  return $form;
}

and then i simply embedded this in to the rest of my html:

$output .= drupal_render(drupal_get_form('room_reservations_admin_date_picker'));

it works fine except that my title and desc do not replace the default ones that show up: http://screencast.com/t/UCIglxwD

do i need to hide these with CSS or is there something i am missing here?

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liquidcms’s picture

liquidcms CreditAttribution: liquidcms commented

i added an after_build function to do this:

function _room_reservations_admin_date_picker_afterbuild($form, &$form_state) {
  $form['date']['date']['#title'] = '';
  $form['date']['date']['#description'] = t('click in box to select date');
  
  return $form;  
}

not sure if this is best method or not.

rutger.gabriel’s picture

rutger.gabriel CreditAttribution: rutger.gabriel commented

Having the same issue here, when changing the Date field's helptext through configuration, the default helptext keeps showing up instead of my custom text. I also used a custom 'after_build' function to change that. It's not the most ideal way but providing the helptext is a big deal in my project.

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Title: can't modify label or description on date field » I can't modify label or description on date field