Date Interface tool seems chunky

[daryllj]

Hi,

I'm building an app that takes quite a few date inputs (not to mention other inputs as well). I have Start & End Dates (a date range of a week), Cut-off Date, and Posting Date. I have Date Interface tool for each and I have them sorted into interface designer Tabs for a more organized look, however the Server version is quite 'noisy' for me since it's just a long all-in-one pager interface.

Do you have other alternatives? I can think of a Text Box instead, but it's way too manual and prone to typo errors (+ further date validation is required compared to just the Date interface tools).

[OTrieger]

@daryllj 

You should review all the User Interface tools and define what is must to be and what not. For example you said that the time period will be 1 week, this is something that you can derive from Start date. So End date is not a must. Review each and every one of them. Check if you can replace User Interface tools with mapping files that providing the data.

Another thing that you can do, you can create different Tabs on the Gallery, so you can have one tab with the Date selection User Interface tool and then one tab for the File selection and then one for data enter, or separate the data collection for different section.
Tab for data need for the period, tab for the employee related data etc. This can help you simplify the User Interface page.