Datepicker evolution

[maxokorokov]

The datepicker will evolve. This is the issue to track down future enhancements, progress, discussion, etc:

• Date range selection (Range selection support in Datepicker #753)
• Multiple months display (feat(datepicker): ability to display several months #977)
• Visual improvements for default view (datepicker: visual improvements #706)
• Ensure additional calendars support (Add Hijri & Hebrew Calendar support to datepicker #656)
• Keyboard navigation (feat(datepicker): add keyboard navigation #1551)
• Allow for custom date model (feature(datepicker): let users define his own date model implementation #1816)
• Custom date models (Datepicker model type #1979)
• Navigation customization / replacement
• Week numbers, weekdays and month names custom display (Datepicker: Allow access to month display and week numbers elements #1060)
• Add content to datepicker template (DatePicker custom footer template #1197)

A little more details in the following document. Feel free to suggest and comment.

[ravipunjwani]

@maxokorokov I would suggest a few more. Please consider if possible.

• Configuration of HTML datepicker fallback for mobile devices (optional configuration).
• The current datepicker works great with larger screens but in mobile if the input-box is placed to the right corner, the datepicker popover gets trimmed due to screen boundaries.
• Custom formatting of date. Current workaround is way longer and would be great if it just allows with simple date format strings like "dd-MMM-yyyy" so it would just work.

[VororRich]

Are there any plans to implement a "month-year" picker (http://jsfiddle.net/brunodd/k5zookLt/20/)

[maxokorokov]

@ErgoSoftUK I was thinking about it very long-term, but definitely not in the nearest future, as there are plenty more priority use cases. Unless someone wants to help and do it of course :)

[VororRich]

@maxokorokov Fair enough, thanks for the response max. I was also curious to know why the decision was made to implement it using your own date type? Oh, and I think I also spotted a bug in there. In the demo for the popup (with input box), if you enter an invalid year (just enter "33333") then click the pop-up icon, chrome tends to completely freeze.

[PEsteves8]

+1 to the suggestion of custom date formats on the input view. It would be nice to have full names for months (or event possibly weekdays), for instance.

[rodrigofns]

@ravipunjwani What's the current workaround to custom format a date, like "dd-mm-yyyy"?

[coutin]

I'm currently working on the datepicker keyboard navigation and visual improvment, and figure out that we are kind of stuck because of angular/angular#12818.

In order to make the focus on the right element, the QueryList issue should be solved. As of now, I'm not able to access the ElementRef of each DayTemplate (as it's done in Accordion) and it seems related to that.

Then how should this be implemented, does it have to be fully customizable for to any custom Day view, or this should be independent ?

[ravipunjwani]

@rodrigofns nothing yet, I was about to implement the custom format but couldn't spend much time on it. As we're still on development, it didn't get much urgent for me yet. Rather I would wait for quick configurable date-picker.

[Eagleseb]

Hey, I see that you're doing lot of progress about the datepicker lately, that's great !
Any progress have been made about the range feature ? Any ideas about when it will be available ?
Thanks, keep up the good work.

[achimha]

@coutin any progress on keyboard navigation for the datepicker?

[divdavem]

@achimha I have opened a PR for keyboard navigation: #1273
@maxokorokov Do you think we could merge it?

[sanspace]

Is there or can there be a config to make it act like a month picker? Just to select the MM/YY.