How to store Date Time Picker Entries in observable array?

Question

I am sharing a link of what I want to do (the last one in the link i.e, date time)

https://rsuite.github.io/multi-date-picker/

After doing this I want to store these entries inside observable array

Note: I want to do this everything inside simple notepad and with jQuery date time picker

function Friend() {
  $(document).ready(function() {
      $("#datetime").datetimepicker();
  });
  var self = this;
  self.dates = ko.observable();
  self.removeFriend=function() {
    obj.friends.remove(self);
  }
}
var obj = {
  friends:ko.observableArray([new Friend()])
};
obj.addFriend=function() {
  obj.friends.push(new Friend());
}
ko.applyBindings(obj);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/knockout/3.4.2/knockout-min.js"></script>
<script src="
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-datetimepicker/2.5.20/jquery.datetimepicker.full.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-datetimepicker/2.5.20/jquery.datetimepicker.min.css">
<h1>Hello JS</h1>
<ul data-bind="foreach:friends">
  <li>
    <input readonly type="text" id="datetime" data-bind="value:dates" />
    <button data-bind="click: removeFriend">Remove Employee</button>
  </li>
</ul>
<button data-bind="click: addFriend">Add Employee</button>

I am very new at this.

its working for the first time but after i click on add Employee button the calender won't even coming in the input box — Shikari, May 01 '20 at 07:21
i think may be its because of this statement :- $(document).ready(function() { $("#datetime").datetimepicker(); }); because the knockout logic is right and remove and add button are working only calendar is not coming after one time — Shikari, May 01 '20 at 07:22

OfirD · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-01T13:40:28.607

There are few problems with your code:

The major problem is that you initialize your input directly with jquery, while you should delegate this responsibility to a custom binding. Luckily, other people already did this job for you (see here and here. in the code below I use the code given there).
Also, every newly added employee has the same id value, so you should give a unique id to each one, or just get rid of it - which is what I did below.
removeFriend should be defined in the parent object.

Also, note that the datepicker used in the website you linked to is not the library called jquery-datetimepicker, which you refer to throughout your question, and is thus what I refer to.

Here's the working (reformatted) code:

$(document).ready(function() {
  initCustomBinding();
  initFriends();
});
function initFriends() {
  var obj = {
    friends: ko.observableArray([new Friend()]),
    addFriend: function() {
      obj.friends.push(new Friend());
    },
    removeFriend: function($data) {
      obj.friends.remove($data);
    }
  };
  ko.applyBindings(obj);
}
function Friend() {
  var self = this;
  self.dates = ko.observable();
}
function initCustomBinding() {
  ko.bindingHandlers.datetimepicker = {
    init: function (element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor) {
        var $el = $(element);
        //initialize datepicker with some optional options
        var options = allBindingsAccessor().datepickerOptions || {};
        $el.datetimepicker(options);

        //handle the field changing
        ko.utils.registerEventHandler(element, "change", function () {
            var observable = valueAccessor();
            var $el = $(element);
            observable($el.datetimepicker("getDate").Value);
        });

        //handle disposal (if KO removes by the template binding)
        ko.utils.domNodeDisposal.addDisposeCallback(element, function () {
            $el.datetimepicker("destroy");
        });

    },
    update: function (element, valueAccessor) {
        var value = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor()),
            $el = $(element),
            current = new Date($el.val());

        if (value - current !== 0) {
            $el.datetimepicker("setDate", value);
        }
    }
  };
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/knockout/3.4.2/knockout-min.js"></script>
<script src="
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-datetimepicker/2.5.20/jquery.datetimepicker.full.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-datetimepicker/2.5.20/jquery.datetimepicker.min.css">
<h1>Hello JS</h1>
<ul data-bind="foreach:friends">
  <li>
    <input readonly type="text" data-bind="datetimepicker:dates" />
    <button data-bind="click: $root.removeFriend">Remove Employee</button>
  </li>
</ul>
<button data-bind="click: addFriend">Add Employee</button>

How to store Date Time Picker Entries in observable array?

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