The collection of specified and pre-defined periods provided by default with the date_range parameter type are adequate for most purposes, but if required, the list of options can be customized.
To customize the date_range periods, simply specify option elements within the date_range parameter for each period required. The type attribute is used to select either the 'specified' or 'predefined' range. If no type is specified, the default is pre-defined.
1=Days, 2=Weeks, 3=Months
1=All Dates, 2=Today, 3=This Week, 4=Last Week, 5=This Month, 6=Last Month, 7=This Quarter, 8=Last Quarter, 9=This Year, 10=Last Year, 11=Custom
The default specified or pre-defined period label can be overridden by specifying the required text in the <option> element as shown in pre-defined options 1 and 6 below. Specified options 1 and 2, and pre-defined options 3, 4, 5 and 11, will use the default text.
In addition, user-defined periods can be specified using a negative option value, the value being the length of the period. For example, -42 gives a range of six weeks. All user-defined periods begin the specified number of days ago and end today; there is no facility to specify the end of the period.
Example user-defined periods
<parameter name="dates" type="date_range" argpos="1" label=" Dates:" attrs="2;5;1;-21">
<option type="specified" value="1"/>
<option type="specified" value="2"/>
<option type="specified" value="-14">Fortnights</option>
<option type="predefined" value="1">Every date possible</option>
<option value="-2">Two Days</option>
<option value="3"/>
<option value="4"/>
<option value="-10">Ten Days</option>
<option value="-21">Three Weeks</option>
<option value="5"/>
<option value="6">A month ago</option>
<option value="-42">Six Weeks</option>
<option value="11"/>
</parameter>
The example on the previous page will produce this list of specified periods:
And this list of pre-defined periods:
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