In the recent Project the customer wants exactly one date to be shown (e.g 13.12.2009). As he wasn't satisfied with offering him one or several listboxes in order to select a specific date i also tried a multibox which wasn't satisfactory for him either.
I also though about offering a Inputbox with an underlying date variable and then use Set Analysis in the Objects. The Drawback here is that you have to explain the customer why he needs to use Set Analysis in every new object/formula, which isn't satisfactory for me!
So are there any innovative approaches to offer a more webform similar UI without loosing the flexibility?
I'm not very clear on what the customer wants. It sounds like the customer wants to select one and only one day at a time. But to select that date, he isn't happy with list boxes or multi-boxes? He apparently WOULD be happy with an input box if you could avoid needing to go to any extra work in the charts?
A calendar or slider object like Fredrik suggests is certainly one approach to consider before resorting to an input box.
If the input box is the preferred approach, then I would probably use a macro (or action? I'm still on 8.5) to select the date that was input. Then your charts could be coded normally.
I'm not very clear on what the customer wants. It sounds like the customer wants to select one and only one day at a time. But to select that date, he isn't happy with list boxes or multi-boxes? He apparently WOULD be happy with an input box if you could avoid needing to go to any extra work in the charts?
A calendar or slider object like Fredrik suggests is certainly one approach to consider before resorting to an input box.
If the input box is the preferred approach, then I would probably use a macro (or action? I'm still on 8.5) to select the date that was input. Then your charts could be coded normally.
