Job Listing Expiry Date not working in editor

[yscik]

From https://wordpress.org/support/topic/job-listing-expiry-date-not-working-in-editor/

When editing an existing Job Listing, the Expiry Date field is not populated with the actual value. Saving the Job Listing will set its expiry date to a month after the current date, regardless of what was previously set.

Looking at the list of job listings, the test listing has the correct expiry date:

But if I edit it, the expiry date field is empty:

Issue was noticed on a live site but was replicated on a separate WordPress 6.4.3 install using the Twenty Twenty-Four theme with no other plugins.

[joashrajin]

Additional info from 7677346-zd-a8c

Sometimes i copy jobs via duplicator-Plugin.
When copied the expire-date ist correctly (the same as the original-job), BUT if i edit the copied job and leave the expire-Date-field empty (what it is since the new update) it will change the expire-date automaticly.

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[btsdev]

Hi, I've added a PR for this issue:

#2766

For anyone needing an immediate fix in the meantime, here's the minified and updated code to change in assets/dist/js/datepicker.js

jQuery(document).ready((function(){var date_format_function = function(_date_value) {var date_value = _date_value;var date_tokens = _date_value.split("-");if((date_tokens)&&(date_tokens.length == 3)) {date_tokens[2] = "" + (parseInt(date_tokens[2], 10) + 1);date_value = new Date(date_tokens.join("-")).toLocaleDateString("en-us",{ year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' });}return date_value;};var e={altFormat:"yy-mm-dd"};"undefined"!=typeof job_manager_datepicker&&(e.dateFormat=job_manager_datepicker.date_format);var t=function(t){var a=jQuery(t),r=jQuery("<input />",{type:"hidden",name:a.attr("name")}).insertAfter(a);if(a.attr("name",a.attr("name")+"-datepicker"),a.on("keyup",(function(){""===a.val()&&r.val("")})),a.datepicker(jQuery.extend({},e,{altField:r})),a.datepicker("option","dateFormat",a.datepicker("option","dateFormat")||"MM d, yy"),a.val(new Date().toLocaleDateString("en-us",{ year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' }))){var n=a.val().split("-");if(3===n.length){var d=new Date(parseInt(n[0],10),parseInt(n[1],10)-1,parseInt(n[2],10));a.datepicker("setDate",d)}}};jQuery("input.job-manager-datepicker, input#_job_expires").each((function(){t(this)})),jQuery(document).on("wpJobManagerFieldAdded",(function(e){t(e.target)})) jQuery("[name='_job_expires']").val(jQuery("input[name='_job_expires-datepicker']")[0].getAttribute("value"));jQuery("input[name='_job_expires-datepicker']").val(date_format_function(jQuery("input[name='_job_expires-datepicker']")[0].getAttribute("value"))); }));

You'll need to update the version in includes/class-wp-job-manager.php on line 334 to do cache busting so that the above change in datepicker.js shows up.

[Gnodesign]

Having received multiple tickets regarding this issue, I can confirm that this issue is caused by WPJM. Hopefully, a quick hotfix will be released to iron out this issue, especially since many users are handling job listings through the backend.

[NihongoJobs]

Greetings! I am not a coder, but I have been asked to share my issue as a job board owner for additional information on this topic.

Once a job ad is posted to my job board, I have a Zap automation in place to add the data to my Airtable, which then triggers posts to social media. I also have backfill job ads coming in from an XML feed, so I need the expiration date to separate the paid/Featured ads from the backfill ads.

Here is how this current issue shows up:

• Customer pays for job ad and it gets posted to my job board immediately. It shows the expiration date on the front end, but not on the back end.
• I edit the job ad from the back end by manually adding the expiration date, but I also add an extra day or two to make up for the delay to my customers ("new expiration date").
• The Zap gets initiated, but the data that gets sent to my Airtable and social media posts shows the old/original expiration date for some reason.

If for any reason I need to edit the job again from the back end, I need to input the expiration date again or else the job ad disappears from my Airtable.

I hope this is helpful, and would be happy to add any more information if requested!
Sincerely,
Kasia