Trigger Date Picker pop-up from code

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I’m fully aware of this discussion:

trigger-click-date-picker-calendar-pop-up

Has anything changed in this regard since 2018?
Why not add such functionality (perform a .click() function on a DatePicker element) ?
Kind Regards,
Yaron

2

In case anyone is still looking for a solution to this,
just use the focus function on your date picker element like so:

$w('#datePicker1').focus();
3

This used to work, but the focus() method recently stopped triggering the Date Picker popup event in the last month or so. On the Date Picker control, the focus() method simply highlights the field. I’ve been searching for a workaround to this unexpected change in behavior.

Does anyone have a working example since the API was evidently changed recently?