QUESTION: DateRangeItem user experience

[lpolvani]

In our application we make extensive use of date ranges, and some users pointed out that the DateRangeItem (img 1) does not provide the best user experience.

The experience we would like to provide is similar to what you encounter while booking a flight (img 2), daterangepicker (img 3) l0oks like a solid implementation of this concept but the look and feel is radically different than the one o SmartGWT.


Is there any way to have something like that in SmartGWT, or are there plans to add such component in 12.1?





SmartGWT DateRangeItem:

Airline Example:


https://www.daterangepicker.com/:

[Isomorphic]

You could implement a component like this yourselves, probably based on Calendar and/or DateChooser.

It's not currently in our roadmap because:

1. it doesn't handle relative date ranges at all

2. it works poorly for longer date ranges - that's why you see it on air travel and hotel booking sites

That makes it a poor general enhancement - not the default, only turn it on if you don't need certain features. But it would be a valid Feature Sponsorship, or perhaps you can dream up other enhancements to the existing DateRangeItem that don't have these drawbacks.