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[FR] Ability to select a month and year in the date selection widget

Open mskorkowski opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Description

When you use a date selection widget on top there is a month and a year of a date. To the left there is a button < to move to the date picker to the earlier month. To the right there is a button > to move the date picker to the later month. As long as you select dates around "now" that works fine.

I was writing notes about 29 events which happened in 2019. Current design forced me to click "<" button way too many times 7 (to be at december 2022) + 12 (months) * 3 (full years between 2022 and 2019) + some more to select a given month in 2019. This gives at least 43 click per event and in total more then 1200 clicks.

My proposal is to make a month a select value with months and year to be a number input filed

Impact

Anybody who needs to add any data related to the more distant past or future.

Additional Context

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mskorkowski avatar Jul 19 '23 12:07 mskorkowski

Normally there is an option to click the month eg. July 2023, which would bring one out one step, to pick month, and then the arrow would navigate years. Might be good to consider this design, as it's common.

Additionally we could allow entering/editing a Date in a textfield at the top of the Date picker dialog.

Xazin avatar Jul 19 '23 13:07 Xazin

Normally there is an option to click the month eg. July 2023, which would bring one out one step, to pick month, and then the arrow would navigate years. Might be good to consider this design, as it's common.

For me it would work. But if somebody would be writing a document about Athens in ancient Greece in V century BC that still would be "a bit" broken experience.

Additionally we could allow entering/editing a Date in a textfield at the top of the Date picker dialog.

👍🏻 If input would follow date format selected for the column, it would be easy to disambiguate.

mskorkowski avatar Jul 19 '23 13:07 mskorkowski

#2441

annieappflowy avatar Jul 24 '23 07:07 annieappflowy