New Variable Requested - Year Only

[+LSUMonica 0]

Anyway to get a variable that would accept simply a four digit year?

[+ChapterhouseInc 0]

yea, i just 'make up' a month and day to get it through..as with the library category: how do i know when it opened, unless it states so on the 'plaque'...for this i use the day i 'visited' since it was 'open' on that day...

[+Backwards Charlie from Austin 0]

If all you can find is a year, then you can be sure that the last day of the year, December 31, is a valid date to use for when it was open.

[+Ambrosia 105]

I would like this. I don't like making up a day and month, because that creates misinformation. I just leave it blank, which is a shame.

Edited March 20, 2006 by Ambrosia

[OpinioNate 8]

Anyway to get a variable that would accept simply a four digit year?

 

How about a textbox accepting non-decimal, numeric only answers?

 

-Nate

[+LSUMonica 0]

Anyway to get a variable that would accept simply a four digit year?

 

How about a textbox accepting non-decimal, numeric only answers?

 

-Nate

 

Tried that but that variable REQUIRES that you enter a singular and plural unit , i.e. year and years.

 

So a "Year Dedicated or Erected" variable shows up as:

 

1984 years

 

I would prefer not to see the "units".

 

Monica

[OpinioNate 8]

Good point. You can also use a regular (short) textbox, but as Bootron pointed out to me earlier that would probably screw up sorting by variable later on. He's put this on his list of fixes but it will have to wait until after this next update.

 

-Nate

[Jeremy 4]

 

Tried that but that variable REQUIRES that you enter a singular and plural unit , i.e. year and years.

 

So a "Year Dedicated or Erected" variable shows up as:

 

1984 years

 

I would prefer not to see the "units".

 

Monica

 

AD may work as a unit. Yeah, kinda weird but it'll work in a pinch.

[+rescue557 0]

 

AD may work as a unit. Yeah, kinda weird but it'll work in a pinch.

 

I've used this for the New York State Historic Markers category. Works well.