Re: Date Ranges: Drop Down Menus vs Calendar Based

2013-04-17 Thread Scott Brady
How about using a calendar date picker along with text boxes the users can type into? I think that's how sites like Travelocity do it, and it gives users who don't want to click from month to month the option of typing it in. You'll still have to validate, of course, but that's not too

Re: Date Ranges: Drop Down Menus vs Calendar Based

2013-04-17 Thread Matt Blatchley
I get what you're saying about the interactivity between the calendar and the textboxes/or drop downs being auto-filled based on the user selection. I've already validated the To date with the drop downs to prevent the second date being earlier than the first (I'm not trying to avoid validation,

Date Ranges: Drop Down Menus vs Calendar Based

2013-04-16 Thread Matt Blatchley
I've been writing an application in CF that imports cost data from Analytics, AdWords, BING, and other APIs that generate reports based on selected date ranges and filtered campaigns. After looking into multiple types of jQuery based calendar selectors used in setting the date ranges, I decided

Re: Date Ranges: Drop Down Menus vs Calendar Based

2013-04-16 Thread Maureen
I agree with you, but I have multiple clients who have insisted on the calendar method, so I pulled out much hair and got it working, even in bootstrap. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Matt Blatchley blatch...@gmail.com wrote: After looking into multiple types of jQuery based calendar

Re: Date Ranges: Drop Down Menus vs Calendar Based

2013-04-16 Thread .jonah
Really depends on your implementation, I'd say. Also, have you tested it with actual users? How does it work for them? On 4/16/13 5:13 PM, Matt Blatchley wrote: I've been writing an application in CF that imports cost data from Analytics, AdWords, BING, and other APIs that generate reports

Re: Date Ranges: Drop Down Menus vs Calendar Based

2013-04-16 Thread Matt Blatchley
Really depends on your implementation, I'd say. Also, have you tested it with actual users? How does it work for them? I've done lots of demos of the product and that isn't something they mention, or at least not that I've heard. Usually it has to do more with can it pull this or that data

Re: Date Ranges: Drop Down Menus vs Calendar Based

2013-04-16 Thread Matt Blatchley
Really depends on your implementation, I'd say. Also, have you tested it with actual users? How does it work for them? I've done lots of demos of the product and that isn't something they mention, or at least not that I've heard. Usually it has to do more with can it pull this or that data