[patch] Calendar widget has limited usefulness for past years

[Robert Bunting]

The calendar widget in the admin interface is nice enough, but is not very useful for choosing dates which are far from today. For instance, for entering date of birth, it can't sensibly be used. You can only skip back one month at a time, which is a lot of clicks to get back to my date of birth (before unix epoch :()

I'd very much like the widget to have arrows to go back/forward a year at a time as well. Something like '<<' '>>' added to the existing '<' '>' buttons.

I'm just submitting to see if anyone has this already as we could patch it in, or if this is a duplicate of another request. If not, I'll have a go at a patch myself, and submit it here.

[I'm currently running the POP branch at r3753 which has trunk as far as r3731]

[hugh@…]

I hate the calendar widget. It would be much better to replace it with simple drop down lists or have the widget modify drop down lists insted of a text box.

[robert bunting]

Provides a last/next year link in the popup calendar

[robert bunting]

view of the calendar patch in action

[anonymous]

I'm slightly inclined to agree wih you about the date box.

In the meantime, I've added a patch to modify the calendar date chooser, so it has '<<' and '>>' links to go back and forward one year.

I'd change the summary with [patch] if akismet would let me.

[Robert Bunting]

Provides a last/next year link in the popup calendar (second version of patch rooted in proper django root dir; please ignore the first version)

[Jacob]

At some point we'll be reworking the admin interface; this is one ticket we should look at then.

[Ramiro Morales]

See also #9388 that is younger but has a more up to date patch.

[Tay Ray Chuan]

#9388 has made some progress.