TracksApp
Mobile date selectors are difficult to use
Migrated from the original issue at https://www.assembla.com/spaces/tracks-tickets/tickets/1358
The current design is three separate select fields, which is slow.
One suggestion from @kruz7:
While creating or editing an action in the mobile version it would be very useful to be able to set Due date or Show from date using "Today", "Tomorrow" or "In a week" buttons beside the select boxes. Selecting the current date in three fields is very slow, it would be much faster even if the user wants to set the date for example in three days - click to "Today" button and move the date by 3 days would be multiple-times faster than using three selectboxes.
Originally reported by on November 11, 2012 at 07:01:32 (-0800) against version git-devel
On November 11, 2012 at 09:03:07 (-0800), zoombody commented:
The dropdowns are indeed tedious. This ticket could be made more generic -- I think there is probably a better solution than adding buttons, such as the use of mobile-platform-native date selectors.
On November 11, 2012 at 09:04:40 (-0800), zoombody commented:
Moving this to someday/maybe, which is SOP for enhancements until prioritized for a release
On November 11, 2012 at 09:11:33 (-0800), zoombody commented:
Actually, I like this ticket. Upping the priority from someday/maybe.
On November 11, 2012 at 07:21:08 (-0800), maddentim commented:
+1 from me as well. I thought there was a ticket out there for this already but I could not find it. Perhaps it was just a discussion on the mailing list. Is there a function like PHP's http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php in rails. strtotime translates phrases like "in 2 days" into date values... A datepicker would be good, but I know that we have tried to avoid heavy javascript in the mobile interface. Maybe we should let go of that as I imagine in this day most users of the mobile are on smartphones that can handle it. This would be good http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/ or this one that does not require jqueryui https://github.com/freqdec/datePicker Food for thought.