Hello !
I am a newbie and I got a problem.
I would like to generate a selectOneMenu like the period list from google adwords in order to display some statistics data from my database; that means a list of options like this:
1) a custom period --> when selected, we got 2 calendars in order to set the "from date" and the "To date".
2) Today
3) Yesterday
5) Last 7 days
...
I got a period table in my database (id, value, label, start date, end date) -->
(1,"P1","Custom",null,null)
(2,"P2","Today",null,null)
(3,"P3","Yesterday",null,null)
...
The problem I have is I need to calculate the correct period depending on the selected period.
So, when the form is submitted, I can execute a function in order to calculate the period, set variables, and refresh my statistics datatable like this
i(selectedPeriod == "P2")
{
start = cal.getTime();
end = cal.getTime();
}
else if (selectedPeriod == "P3")
{
end = cal.getTime();
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, -1);
start = cal.getTime();
}
...
I wonder if there is another more elegant method to do that?
Is it possible to calculate the end date before populating the selectItems?
Thanks in advance for your help
