Datagrid: add filter for date ranges

[derkoe]

The Datagrid has built-in filters supporting string and number fields. It would be great to also include a filter for date (or even date-time) objects. Currently, we have a custom filter for that but I think the use case to filter dates is very common.

Here is how the UI would look like:

[d-m-s]

@gnomeontherun, @hippee-lee could you guys give us some feedback on this?

[d-m-s]

regarding "waiting:needs-design"

some smart guys proposed a really neat ui-design some years ago ;-)

vmware-archive/clarity#474

Can we speed things up, just a little?

[bbogdanov]

@gnomeontherun, @hippee-lee could you guys give us some feedback on this?

Jeremy and Matt are not part of the team anymore. @strefethen

[strefethen]

Would you mind adding some more specifics? I looked at the linked issue and the last comment reads:

gnomeontherun closed this as completed on Feb 5, 2021

[d-m-s]

Jeremy and Matt are not part of the team anymore.

@bbogdanov: Thanks for the info, wasn't aware of that.
Who is leading the project now? Who can be contacted for strategic vision and to align coworking ideas of the project?

@strefethen As mentioned above:
For datagrids which have date-columns, an appropriate/probably built-in filter would be great.

Some usecases to be considered:

• Date: select just single day.
• DateRange: select start and end date. How this can look like, has been describe by your team in #474
• DateTime: select day and time of day.
• DateTimeRange: select start and end date as well as time.

For the beginning I'm sure Date would be sufficient, just get some consistent throughout large applications - with custom filters, theses "standard-usecases" are implemented always differently and hence harm the usability as well as the efficiency of Clarity for users as well as for developers.

[kevinbuhmann]

There is an open PR for this, but it is on hold due because it needs design. We cannot merge the PR as is because it introduces a nested popover.

[strefethen]

@d-m-s VMware recently hired a Clarity Product Manager, @pdaigle.

[jerone]

You might be interested in the Daterangepicker from Clarity Addons.

It is not a filter, but it could be re-used for that.