Date Field Not Showing Up On Add/Edit Content In Drupal

ISSUE
So I don’t know what it is about Drupal 7, but it just seems to been more difficult to work with and a lot more frustrating than Drupal 6. I really think it hates me.

Anyway, so I was setting up this website with different content types, one being a news article. I wanted to put a field where they could choose a date easily so I installed the Date module. I created some SQL in a block to get the latest news articles and sort by date (since I loathe Views). Everything was working well. About a month later the client wants me to put another news article on their site. I originally had hoped that would be something they’d be doing themselves but whatever.

So I go to add it and the date field does not appear on the news article on add and it wasn’t on edit either.

I’m baffled for a few minutes and click around. I then checked the modules to see if any configuration was wrong. It turns out, Date was inactivated for some reason.

I activated it which I would image would solve the problem but it did not. The date was still not showing up on content types.

I was tempted to make another date and replace that date instead since I wanted to get this done.  Well to make the short story long, my SQL I came up with after I created another date field didn’t work and I couldn’t remember the credentials for the DB. I was left to actually solve the problem… Gasp!

SOLUTION
I went back and forth with trying to edit the date. That was my first instict. However that kept not working. I then noticed a screen after the initial save screen (when editing a date). It contained just a select menu that was required. I noticed the value “Please Select” or something like it. So I chose the “Pop-up calendar”. Wow that worked!

Here’s what the screen looks like in edit mode:
Change Widget, Widget TypeI hope this can try to help someone else out. I was googling everything and anything with the Date module.


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