Hello fellow SAPUI5
A quick tip regarding input fields and dates. (I was about to ask this as a question, but found the answer myself; so decided instead to just post it as a tip for fellow SAPUI5 learners.) I was trying to have an input field that allows a user to select a date as a month.
I used a sap.m.DatePicker with the displayFormat as below.
This worked well enough; the DatePicker field showed the date as expected and is treated as I wanted.
However I still had to click down to the day in the picker view:
For example, I still had to click all the way through to 16th (or whatever) April 2015 to select April 2015. One extra click felt inelegant, how could I avoid it?
It turns out that using sap.m.DateTimeInput was the more correct choice in this instance!
leads to:
No doubt not much of an observation to our UI5 veterans, but a learning item for me!