Date Picker for Browser

Kyle_Grieb · 04-23-2020 06:17 PM

What is the limitation behind including a date picker for browser UI?
Date field on mobile shows a calendar date picker, but this is not the case for the browser (Firefox)

Marc_Dillon

Good question. I also use Firefox, and hate that there is no date-picker. Chrome gets a date-picker though.

Jules_Lane

Following

Steve

From a developer:

We adopt whatever is the native mechanism for date picking on each individual browser platform. In other words, if a customer works with a number of different web pages and web apps (built by us or by anyone else) in the same browser, we want their experience to be consistent.

Marc_Dillon

So in other words there isn’t a native date picker for Firefox?
Hmmm… Let’s go do some research. I’m thinking maybe there’s some browser extension out there that could help?

http://html5doctor.com/the-woes-of-date-input/

Looks like bad news all around

DougH

Ugh, highjack but I'm afraid this is a major problem still. In Chrome I get the calendar date picker w/ time picker (which is exactly what MUST be used) but on mobile, AppSheet fails to load that, instead opting for the ugo & cumbersome slide up/down month, day, year and hour, minute, second, am/pm selectors (7 options w/o benefit of context!), as if they're rollers on a the world's longest combination bike lock. smh..

Any way to force AppSheet to always give user (regardless of method accessing AppSheet) the correct datetime picker that shows a calendar?

Steve

Long-press the roller. It may/should then allow you to type in a value. May depend on your version of Android, though.