Expose date range searches from API to the web UI

[matt-horrocks]

Hi,

I'd like the functionality to search for and display photos between specific dates.

Is this something the community would be interested in?

Thanks,
Matt

[jmathai]

This exists but isn't exposed in the UI. Here's an example. The parameters are identical for the API.

https://current.trovebox.com/photos/takenAfter-July%201,%202010/takenBefore-July%2018,%202010/list?sortBy=dateUploaded,asc

[matt-horrocks]

That's great. Is there a reason it's not available in the UI?

It seems as though it would be a useful addition.

[jmathai]

@matt-horrocks haven't got around to it....:)

[jmathai]

Reopening to add this to the web UI (changing the title)

[matt-horrocks]

@jmathai I don't mind taking a look at this. Would you have a preferred ui for the calendar?

[jmathai]

I don't. We've been using free form dates and parsing them with strtotime when doing something like editing the time a photo was taken. I don't think that makes sense here though.

We're using bootstrap 2 so a date dialog that works well with it is where I would start.

This looks promising http://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.org/en/release/. It supports LESS which we can include here under // libraries.