How to trigger the click event of the datepicker component

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1

What I’m trying to do:
I would like to simulate the click event on a datepicker component in order to open up the date selection modal as soon as the component is shown on screen

Is this possible?

2

Hi there,

I would guess that Stu’s augment library (likely in the Anvil Extras library) can do that.

Give the forum a search for that and see what you can find out.

3

If it doesn’t work with the library @campopianoa mentions, then mention it here and it can easily be updated. I haven’t tried triggering click events on date pickers.

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I looked into that library. It seems like it is only used for adding additional events and handlers to anvil components, not for triggering ones that are already in place. I tried doing something like

augment.add_event(self.date_picker_1, 'click')
self.date_picker_1.trigger('click')

and nothing happens because I didn’t set an augment event handler.

5

Ok I got it to work. Needed to do:

import anvil.js as _js
from anvil.js.window import jQuery as _S

_S(_js.get_dom_node(self.date_picker_1)).trigger('click')
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