Getting a custom string from DatePicker

[TransGirlCodes]

Hi, thanks for shiny.fluent!

Is it possible to get a custom string for the DatePicker.shinyInput?

I read the docs for the package, and Microsoft's React docs and found the format formatDate.

So I was able do do:

Date.Picker.shinyInput(
  ...,
  formatDate = JS("(date) => {return !date ? '' : date.getFullYear() + '.' + (date.getMonth() + 1);}")
)

But that only alters how the date is displayed in the ui component (YYYY.MM), I still get a full date-time string back e.g. 2023-02-28T13:18:13.400Z

Is it possible to have the component only return "YYYY.MM" as the input$* value, or am I forced to do string manip on the R side?

[jakubsob]

Hi @SabrinaJaye,

currently this is not a supported feature and value accessible in the server will be a full date-time string.

We will investigate possibility of adding such parsing of input value to this component, but until that happens I suggest parsing the date on R side.