Datepicker not opening twice in angular-ui version 0.11.0

Question

I am trying to have 2 datepickers and I am using Angular UI version 0.11.0.

My HTML code

<span ng-if="periods.period == 10">
     <input type="text" datepicker-popup="dd-MMMM-yyyy" ng-model="cdate.customStartDate" is-open="opened1"  max-date="maxDate" datepicker-options="dateOptions" date-disabled="disabled(date, mode)" ng-required="true" close-text="Close" class="input-md" />
     <button class="btn" ng-click="open($event,'opened1')"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></span></button>

</span>


<span ng-if="periods.period == 10"> 
- 
    <input type="text" datepicker-popup="dd-MMMM-yyyy" ng-model="cdate.customEndDate" is-open="opened2"  min-date="cdate.customStartDate" max-date="maxDate" datepicker-options="dateOptions" date-disabled="disabled(date, mode)"  ng-required="true" close-text="Close" class="input-md" />
    <button class="btn" ng-click="open($event,'opened2')"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></span></button>   
</span>

and my JS code is `

                     $scope.disabled = function(date, mode) {
                      return ( mode === 'day' && ( date.getDay() === -1 || date.getDay() === 7 ) );
                     };

                     $scope.maxDate = new Date();


                       $scope.open = function($event,opened) {
                            $event.preventDefault();
                            $event.stopPropagation();

                            $scope[opened] = true;
                          };


                     $scope.dateOptions = {
                     'year-format': "'yy'",
                     'starting-day': 1
                     };

` At first, when I click on the button, datepicker opens up just fine. But once it has been opened once,the problem is that the datepicker popup doesn't open the next time I click on the button.

Answer 1

I was having the same issue whereby I could only open the date picker control once using the button, but it would not open a second time. The problem may be related to a scope issue which might be coming about because the button is not a child of the input HTML element. I was able to get the button to work by changing the data model a little bit. For example, instead of using $scope.isDatePickerOpen as the model, I changed to $scope.datePicker.isOpen (and set is-open="datePicker.isOpen"). Note that the new data model for is-open does not hang directly off of $scope, but was moved one level deep (off the $scope.datePicker object). This seems to make the data more "findable".

The other thing I had to do was change the data model on a timer. For example:

$scope.openDatePicker = function($event) {
  $event.preventDefault();
  $event.stopPropagation();
  $timeout( function(){
     $scope.datePicker.isOpen = true;  
  }, 50);
};

At any rate, your workaround posted above was what gave me the motivation to keep looking for a solution, so thanks!