Broken Views Field for Date field on Opening Inst

Thanks a lot @josh.fabean for addressing this. Unfortunately, the patch doesn't seem to fix this for me. First, I had to remove the date field from my view, but there isn't any alternative field available that would give me the date. I only find "Date start" or "Date end", but not date as such. But only the date field as such would give me a field formatter for the date range, I guess.

I'm wondering why you even need to add views data for this because entity fields should be available in views without any altering, are they not?

When I first reached out to mandclu → a couple years about the Views integration issue he pointed me to this core issue 📌 [PP-1] Base fields miss out on Views data from hook_field_views_data() Postponed as a possible reason.

So as a workaround I copied the logic that was happening in smart_date.views.inc

So maybe the issue is that the date columns are different from what a field created in the GUI would be, so this code isn't working right. I'll see if I can match the database schema exactly of a date field created in the GUI and if it starts working.

With changes to Calendar View this is no longer an issue.