another year selection question

[raoulParticipant]

Hi,

I nour situation the user can only select a date within a range of two months from now. We don’t really need the year selection functionality and like to disable it. I cannot see anthing in the API that will do this. Can it be done?

Thanks,
Raoul

[DimitarParticipant]

Hello Raoul,

Unfortunately, there is no way to disable month and year view. However, selection of months and years out of scope can be disabled by setting the widget’s min and max properties.

Best Regards,
Dimitar

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[raoulParticipant]

Hi Dimitar,

That is a shame. Is there any chance to implement that option? Shouldn’t be too hard…

Thanks,
Raoul

[DimitarParticipant]

Hi Raoul,

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, jqxDateTimeInput does not have such API.

Best Regards,
Dimitar

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[raoulParticipant]

Huh? JQWidget such a brilliant set of components with complex functionality, but implementing a lock on the click event for the year selection is impossible?

Anyway, ok, it’s a shame. I showed the calender to some “general” internet users, they all had to look twice and figure out how to go back to the month display. Once you know how it works,it is easy. But it is all about the first experience, I think you guys have developed an amazing set of tools. I certainly hope you want to look into this…

Raoul

[DimitarParticipant]

Hi raoul,

Note that this is the default behaviour of the Microsoft Windows calendar. That is why we believe this is the behaviour most users expect when they use such a control.

Best Regards,
Dimitar

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[raoulParticipant]

Not on my computer and as mentioned I have seen some people confused, the way you respond is just totally not my experience with jqwidgets so far.

Also, the behaviour of a calender picker should depend on its purpose. If people should only be able to select a date from the current month or the next two months, year selection is unnecessary and confusing anyway but certainly in the current implementation where the month display is replaced with years display.

You are providing tools for developers, not the end user. It should be up to the developer to decide what behaviour to implement based on the purpose of the calendar. And you should focus on providing a toolset that meet the developers requirements. I don’t think it us up to you to decide for the developer what behaviour the user will expect…

Apologies for the rant, your response and thought process in this case are just very confusing… Basically you “take it or leave it”, right?

Raoul

[DimitarParticipant]

Hi Raoul,

Thank you for your feedback.

Customers who have purchased Developer or Enterprise license have access to the source code and can make modifications to it, if such are necessary and according to the jQWidgets EULA.

Best Regards,
Dimitar

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[raoulParticipant]

Ok, you are responding from a business point of view correct but stubborn and cold, fair enough… I was very happy to see that another request (if you ask me far more complicated) we had regarding drag drop was actually kindly integrated so I guess that rose my expectations too far… So I must say we have had better experiences… On the other hand thanks for being honest.

Is the source clearly commented?

Cheers,
Raoul

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