UI for Selection of Date Portions...

Would anyone have any thories as to what sort of nice UI I could implement
for the following two situations...

1. Selection of Day and Month where Year is irrelivant (eg, Start of
Financial Year)
2. Selection of Month and Year where Day is irrelivant (eg, Transaction
Period)

Some caveats:-
The Date Picker always seems to include Day, Month & Year, so no good
for these instances.
I would prefer one control, rather than, say, seperate controls for
Month entry then Year entry.
I am currently using text box entry, but this doesn't look that
impressive.

Any suggestions?


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Regards,

Michael D. Cole
Mercury Computer Systems
<www.mercsys.com.au>

Will the datepicker control work with a custom format?

Brad

"Michael Cole" <mc@mercsys.com.au> wrote in message
news:3a1b5c98@news.devx.com...
> Would anyone have any thories as to what sort of nice UI I could implement
> for the following two situations...
>
> 1. Selection of Day and Month where Year is irrelivant (eg, Start of
> Financial Year)
> 2. Selection of Month and Year where Day is irrelivant (eg, Transaction
> Period)
>
> Some caveats:-
> The Date Picker always seems to include Day, Month & Year, so no good
> for these instances.
> I would prefer one control, rather than, say, seperate controls for
> Month entry then Year entry.
> I am currently using text box entry, but this doesn't look that
> impressive.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Michael D. Cole
> Mercury Computer Systems
> <www.mercsys.com.au>
>
>

Michael,
comments inline :

Michael Cole <mc@mercsys.com.au> wrote in message
news:3a1b5c98@news.devx.com...
> Would anyone have any thories as to what sort of nice UI I could implement
> for the following two situations...
>
> 1. Selection of Day and Month where Year is irrelivant (eg, Start of
> Financial Year)

Hmmm...can't think of anything without seperate controls. A dropdown would
have way too many entries! That and how do you handle things like Feb 29? If
you're using it to set a start of financial year (or some other schedule
start) I'd give a drop down for month, and an option group with radio
buttons for some common options like first, fifteenth, last day, and
radiobutton / textbox for user entry of day.

> 2. Selection of Month and Year where Day is irrelivant (eg, Transaction
> Period)

I had a small accounting app I wrote where I needed this. In my case the the
Mo/Year selection was for reports on specific transaction periods (months),
so I looked up the oldest txn and the newest. I then populated a dropdown
with all the month/year combo's between those two dates. The user could
select month/year to print report on, and never had to worry about selecting
invalid dates.

HTH,
Jason

"Jason Langston" <jason@DONTSPAMMEwirelesszone.com> wrote in message
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> Michael,
> comments inline :

Thank you. Replies inline.

> Michael Cole <mc@mercsys.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3a1b5c98@news.devx.com...
> > Would anyone have any thories as to what sort of nice UI I could
implement
> > for the following two situations...
> >
> > 1. Selection of Day and Month where Year is irrelivant (eg, Start of
> > Financial Year)
>
> Hmmm...can't think of anything without seperate controls. A dropdown would
> have way too many entries! That and how do you handle things like Feb 29?
If
> you're using it to set a start of financial year (or some other schedule
> start) I'd give a drop down for month, and an option group with radio
> buttons for some common options like first, fifteenth, last day, and
> radiobutton / textbox for user entry of day.

I do like the idea. I shall have a go at implementing it.

> > 2. Selection of Month and Year where Day is irrelivant (eg, Transaction
> > Period)
>
> I had a small accounting app I wrote where I needed this. In my case the
the
> Mo/Year selection was for reports on specific transaction periods
(months),
> so I looked up the oldest txn and the newest. I then populated a dropdown
> with all the month/year combo's between those two dates. The user could
> select month/year to print report on, and never had to worry about
selecting
> invalid dates.

Already implemented this. Thanks for the confirmation.


--
Regards,

Michael D. Cole
Mercury Computer Systems
<www.mercsys.com.au>