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Add "Today" link to date picker user input control

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Matt Hale
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Add a simple "Today" link next to the date in the user input control, so the user doesn't have to open the date input and navigate to today. Saves a click for almost everyone that uses the control, and is particularly useful when a user loads the dashboard for the first time and the control defaults to something like Jan 1, 1969.
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    Dominic Yerex
    It would be cool if we could default the date picker to this "Today" value also.
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    Srinivas Kumar
    Yeah this is very useful functionality - generally we want to reset the date pickers to default date when new session is opened.
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    Rick Johnston
    I agree strongly with Srinivas, UIC that are Date Pickers should automatically default to the session date. This isn't how it currently works, particularly on mobile, I am required to select the klip and set the date.
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    David Penalver
    In addition, the option of more "dynamic" options would give this a lot of flexibility. So instead of having to manually change something when it accumulates too much data (or becomes out of date if you have static dates) you could have options such as "Today", "30 Days Ago", "Beginning of Quarter". Things like that.
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    Lili Gao
    I agree. it is very convenient for our user to load the latest information automatically instead of choosing the date manually. Besides, if we use two date pickers for the user to setup a period, we also want to be able to set a limitation on how many days maximum the period can be, such as, we want the user to choose period no more than 3 months, otherwise, the user can choose whatever date they want, and very often, we 't keep the data for a long ago.
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    Peter Vermeulen

    Being able to set the default value for a datePicker to 'Today" would be nice indeed.

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    Andrey Baker

    I think being able to set the date picker to TODAY("TIMEZONE") is basic required functionality.

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    Julian Day

    This fantastic suggestion was first suggested on July 31, 2013 (over 3 years ago) without any Klipfolio feedback

    HELLO KLIPFOLIO - ARE YOU LISTENING TO YOUR PAYING CUSTOMERS ?

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    Stephen Yates

    Yes, we certainly try our best to listen. Many of our best product improvements and features have come from the feedback we get from our customers. There are some great ideas in this thread. We are currently working improvements around date and time and these suggestions will be valuable input.

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    Michael Thomas

    Agree, ability to select todays date would be fantastic!

     

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    Stephen Yates

    Thanks for the feedback Michael.

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    Darwin Leung

    Is there a way we can use both date picker for start date/ end date AND drop down filter like "Today", "Yesterday", "Last 7 days" etc?

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    Tuomas Nuutila

    Darwin, I would also like to know if that's possible.

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    Aline Akuzwe

    This is highly needed! 
    Please do something about it!!!

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    Darwin Leung

    @Tuomas

    Yes it is possible to use both drop down date period filter AND custom start date/ end date. I figured that out a while ago, it might not be relevant to this old thread. I would share how I did it anyway

    First you build a regular drop down filter with "Custom" as an option for both value and label. Then I put a custom start and end date filter with 2 new variables ($startdate, $enddate). Then in the date column in the table, I put something like:

    SWITCH(
    $daterangefilter,
    "Last 7 Days", DATEVALUE(DATERANGE( DATE_ADD( TODAY( ) ,"5", -6 ) , TODAY( ) ),"yyyy-MM-dd"),
    "Yesterday", DATEVALUE(YESTERDAY( ),"yyyy-MM-dd"),
    "Today", DATEVALUE(TODAY(),"yyyy-MM-dd"),
    "Custom", DATEVALUE(DATERANGE(DATE_ADD($startdate,"5",1),DATE_ADD($enddate,"5",1)),"yyyy-MM-dd")
    )

    So if the drop down is selected as "Custom", it will return the list of dates between $startdate and $enddate. I also use a "submit" button to control both components.

    Hope this helps.

     

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    Carlos Kynäslahti

    Please add this ASAP.

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    Franck van der Sluis

    Progress?

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