Birthday field and Passport Expiration Date as a text inputs

[balkian]

Create a new user via the site setup and check the form.

These fields should be date inputs or similar. Besides, the time string format is not specified.

[zupo]

The user panel use an older form library called "formlib" (other forms we use in the site use a newer one, called "z3c.form").

Find documentation online for formlib and see how to configure a date field to display a Date(Time) widget instead of the TextLine widget.

OR:

Easy way out: add description to these fields that tells the user in which format should the date be.

[balkian]

I looked into it, and it doesn't seem to be that easy/straightforward, so it'd involve adding javascript to handle it. I hope I'm wrong.

Can't we just use z3c.form instead? If it's the recommended way to implement forms in Plone 4, why aren't we using it already?

[zupo]

Legacy. Before z3c.form was invented, Plone already had these forms. And ever since z3c.form became standard, no-one yet had the time/money to rewrite them to z3c.form.

A PLIP (PLone Improvement Proposal) about this is already in the works. It is planned to be part of the 4.4 release (approx the end of this year, but this is open source, dates are not fixed): https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12253