Creating a custom, "multiple dates picker" field We're migrating* a website that uses http://dubrox.github.io/Multiple-Dates-Picker-for-jQuery-UI/ to store any combination of dates for an entry... (eg not just a single date or date range, can be lots of individual dates which aren't sequential)
What would be the best kind of field/setup to import these into?
I guess we could create a custom field type that implements the same multipicker as above as it's also based on the jQuery datepicker widget... but have never created a custom field type from scratch though... what is the best approach to this?
(*7000 entries to import via FeedMe, looks like every single date is added to an event table as an individual row and looked up via an id :zany_face:)
Instead of creating a custom field could you do it with a Matrix with each date going into a matrix row?
I've done something similar in the past for scheduling delivery dates for a Commerce order. Each order has a matrix field for delivery dates and each date (along with some other data) is added as a separate row.