Switching month when setting disabled dates dynamically

Expected behaviour

I am making a calendar which loads disabled dates when changing months. Every time the month switch, an ajax request is sent for the previous month, the current month and the next month. Nothing should change on the calendar except of the disabled days.

Actual behaviour

The disabled days are disabled correctly, but the month visible in the calendar jumps back to the defaultViewDate.

Example code

$('.appointment-datepicker').datepicker('setDatesDisabled', disabledDates);

[dhakan]

I encountered the same issue needing to disable dates based on an AJAX request. I worked around the issue of the date reverting back by using a call to the internal private function _setDate right after the call to setDatesDisabled.

First: $('.datepicker-selector').datepicker('setDatesDisabled', datesToBeDisabled);

and then, secondly: $('.datepicker-selector').datepicker('_setDate', dateParam, 'view');

where dateParam is a date within the currently viewed month.

Not entirely sure if this does not cause any side effects.

[jelhan]

@dhakan I’ve suggested to add a public api to get and set current view date in #1978. As far as I investigated there aren’t any side effects using internal _setDate function with view as second parameter to update view date. If you encounter any issues please let me know cause I’m planing to use the same approach to implement this public api.