Add date range in thesis search form.

scipost/static/scipost/assets/js/scripts.js

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ function hide_all_alerts() {
     $(".alert").fadeOut(300);
 }
 
-
 $(function(){
     // Remove all alerts in screen automatically after 10sec.
     setTimeout(function() {hide_all_alerts()}, 10000);

scipost/templates/scipost/base.html

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
     <title>SciPost{% block pagetitle %}{% endblock pagetitle %}</title>
 
     <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.0.min.js"></script>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
+    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
 
     {% block headsup %}
     {% endblock headsup %}

theses/forms.py

@@ -108,3 +108,5 @@ class ThesisLinkSearchForm(forms.Form):
     title_keyword = forms.CharField(max_length=100, label="Title", required=False)
     abstract_keyword = forms.CharField(max_length=1000, required=False, label="Abstract")
     supervisor = forms.CharField(max_length=100, required=False, label="Supervisor")
+    from_date = forms.DateField(widget=forms.DateInput(attrs={'type': 'date'}), required=False)
+    to_date = forms.DateField(widget=forms.DateInput(attrs={'type': 'date'}), required=False)

theses/managers.py

+import datetime
+
 from django.db import models
+from django.utils import timezone
 
 
 class ThesisLinkManager(models.Manager):
     def search_results(self, form):
+        from_date = form.cleaned_data['from_date'] if form.cleaned_data['from_date'] else datetime.date(1600, 1, 1)
+        to_date = form.cleaned_data['to_date'] if form.cleaned_data['to_date'] else timezone.now()
+
         return self.vetted().filter(
             title__icontains=form.cleaned_data['title_keyword'],
             author__icontains=form.cleaned_data['author'],
             abstract__icontains=form.cleaned_data['abstract_keyword'],
             supervisor__icontains=form.cleaned_data['supervisor'],
+            defense_date__range=(from_date, to_date)
         ).order_by('-defense_date')
 
     def latest(self, n):