Time for action – using Calendar with a date range

Let us see how we can use the mindate and maxdate values from backing beans.

1. Create a Calendar component with a date selection range using the mindate and maxdate attributes:

   <p:calendar value="#{userController.registeredUser.dob}" 
         pattern="dd-MM-yyyy"
         mindate="#{userController.dobMinDate}" 
         maxdate="#{userController.dobMaxDate}"
         showButtonPanel="true"
         showWeek="true" 
         showOtherMonths="true" 
         selectOtherMonths="false" 
         effect="slideDown"
         />

2. Implement the getMinDate() and getMaxDate() methods to return minimum and maximum dates:

   @ManagedBean
   @RequestScoped
   public class UserController 
   {
     public Date getDobMinDate() throws ParseException 
     {
       return new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy").parse("01-06-2013");
     }
   
     public Date getDobMaxDate() throws ParseException
    ...