{"id":2433,"date":"2012-02-02T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2012\/02\/02\/make-salesforce-calendar-year-drop-down-to-show-earlier-years\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T21:22:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:22:23","slug":"make-salesforce-calendar-year-drop-down-to-show-earlier-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2012\/02\/02\/make-salesforce-calendar-year-drop-down-to-show-earlier-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Salesforce calendar year drop-down to show earlier years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problem:<\/strong>
\nThe birthdate field on the Contact object doesn’t show previous year and neither does it allow to switch back and forth the Years part easily.<\/p>\n

Solution:<\/strong>
\nBelow example will show the last 100 years.<\/p>\n

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  1. Go to Setup -> App Setup -> Customize -> User Interface. Here make sure the ‘Show Custom Sidebar Components on All Pages’ is checked.<\/li>\n
  2. Go to Setup -> App Setup -> Home Page Layouts. Make sure all your Home Page Layouts have the Messages & Alerts component checked.<\/li>\n
  3. Go to Setup -> App Setup -> Home Page Components. Here, click edit for Messages & Alerts. In the textarea, copy and paste the javascript code below and save (it can just go below your normal Messages & Alerts, won’t show up on the actual page).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \n
    <script src=\"\/js\/dojo\/0.4.1\/dojo.js\"><\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/soap\/ajax\/11.1\/connection.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\ndojo.require(\"dojo.collections.Store\");\r\ndojo.require(\"dojo.charting.Chart\");\r\ndojo.require('dojo.json');\r\nvar arYears = getYears();\r\nfunction swapYears(){\r\n\tif(document.getElementById('calYearPicker') != null) {\r\n\t\tvar select = document.getElementById('calYearPicker');\r\n\t\tvar curValue = select.value;\r\n\t\tvar parentx = select.parentNode;\r\n\t\tparentx.removeChild(select);\r\n\t\tselect = document.createElement('select');\r\n\t\tselect.size = 1;\r\n\t\tselect.id = 'calYearPicker';\r\n\t\tselect.name = 'calYearPicker';\r\n\t\tparentx.appendChild(select);\r\n\t}\r\n\tif(select != null) {\r\n\tfor(x=0;x<100;x++) {\r\n\t\tselect.options[x] = new Option(arYears[x], arYears[x], false, false);\r\n\t}\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\nfunction getYears() {\r\n\tsforce.sessionId = getCookie('sid');\r\n\tsforce.connection.sessionId=sforce.sessionId;\r\n\tvar out = [];\r\n\tvar currentTime = new Date()\r\n\tvar year = currentTime.getFullYear()\r\n\ttry {\r\n\t\tfor(x=0;x<100;x++) {\r\n\t\t\tout[x] = x+year-99;\r\n\t\t}\t\r\n\r\n\t} catch(error) {\r\n\t\talert(error);\r\n\t}\r\n\treturn out;\r\n}\r\ndojo.addOnLoad(swapYears);\r\n<\/script><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
    Credits: Salesforce Community (http:\/\/boards.developerforce.com\/t5\/General-Development\/Date-of-Birth-field-Calendar-years-don-t-go-back-before-this\/td-p\/120133)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Problem: The birthdate field on the Contact object doesn’t show previous year and neither does it allow to switch back and forth the Years part easily. Solution: Below example will show the last 100 years. Go to Setup -> App Setup -> Customize -> User Interface. Here make sure the ‘Show Custom Sidebar Components on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[109,27,169],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-apex","tag-javascript","tag-salesforce","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}