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datetimepicker-example
from flask import Flask, render_template
from flask_bootstrap import Bootstrap
from flask_wtf import Form
from wtforms.fields import DateField
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'secret'
Bootstrap(app)
class MyForm(Form):
date = DateField(id='datepick')
@app.route('/')
def index():
form = MyForm()
return render_template('index.html', form=form)
{% extends "bootstrap/base.html" %}
{% import "bootstrap/wtf.html" as wtf %}
{% block title %}This is an example page{% endblock %}
{% block head %}
{{ super() }}
<link type="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datetimepicker/4.17.47/css/bootstrap-datetimepicker.min.css">
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<div class="container">
<h1>Hello, Bootstrap</h1>
<div class="row">
<div class='col-sm-6'>
{{ wtf.quick_form(form) }}
</div>
</div>
</div>
{% endblock %}
{% block scripts %}
{{ super() }}
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.18.1/moment.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datetimepicker/4.17.47/js/bootstrap-datetimepicker.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$('#datepick').datetimepicker();
});
</script>
{% endblock %}
@GivenToFlyCoder
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type="stylesheet" should be rel="stylesheet", otherwise the datetimepicker CSS is ignored :)

It's true, thanks!

@GivenToFlyCoder
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This works for me only visually. I can see the picker, and the textbox updates according to my selection, but when submitting the form, a None is returned. Any suggestions, please?

I think that you should specific the date format in the input form:

begin_date = DateField('Fecha Inicio', id='begin_date', format='%Y-%m-%d')
end_date = DateField('Fecha Final', id='end_date', format='%Y-%m-%d')

To match with the output format of the datepicker:

$(function () {
$('#begin_date').datetimepicker({format:'YYYY-MM-DD'});
$('#end_date').datetimepicker({format:'YYYY-MM-DD'});
});

@GivenToFlyCoder
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@miguelgrinberg thanks a lot! it works fine!

How can i make a similiar approach, using time (hour:minute) instead of date?

@miguelgrinberg
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@GivenToFlyCoder Sorry, this was 5 years ago. You are going to have to look at the docs to determine how to use a time only picker, I honestly do not remember.

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Don't apologize, i'll look for it! Thanks again!

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GivenToFlyCoder commented May 21, 2022

@miguelgrinberg I took a look inside the docs, using a time only picker, i realized that is similar as your original approach, i just add 2 more fields in the form (begin_time and end_time):

class Filters(FlaskForm):

filtre = FiltersOptions()  
.....    

**begin_time = DateTimeField('Hora Inicio', id='begin_time', format='%H:%M %p')
 end_time = DateTimeField('Hora Final', id='end_time', format='%H:%M %p')** 

submit = SubmitField('Filtrar Resultados')

In the script section, i just add the additional tags:

$(function () {
$('#begin_date').datetimepicker({format:'YYYY-MM-DD'});
$('#end_date').datetimepicker({format:'YYYY-MM-DD'});
$('#begin_time').datetimepicker({format: 'hh:mm A'});
$('#end_time').datetimepicker({format: 'hh:mm A'});

});

I modified your original code (thanks a lot for this), to accomplish my goals, these variables are going to be used later as filters to make some queries to the data base!
Time

https://ibb.co/ZM4fTdf

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realJustinLee commented Sep 15, 2024

Well, simply use DateTimeLocalField would solve all these sufferings.

Sample Here

from flask_wtf import FlaskForm
from wtforms.fields import StringField, TextAreaField, SubmitField, DateTimeLocalField
from wtforms.validators import DataRequired, Optional


class PasteForm(FlaskForm):
    title = StringField('Title here')
    body = TextAreaField('Just paste', validators=[DataRequired()])
    expiry = DateTimeLocalField('Expiry date', validators=[Optional()])
    submit = SubmitField('Submit')

And the HTML is quite simple, No JS needed except basic BootStrap

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