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Adding date to birth date field requires over 700 mouse clicks
If you want to add a birth date using the 1P Birth Date field, manual entry is not allowed, you must click on the appropriate date on the pop-up calendar. The calendar for the Birth Date field pops up by default to today's date, i.e., 07/13/2024.
To enter your birth date, click on the left arrow next to month to get to the appropriate birthday year. 12 clicks per year x the number of years between the current year and the birth year.
For someone born in, say, 1965, this would require over 700 mouse clicks to get the calendar to the year 1965. (59 years x 12 months per year = too many mouse clicks required)
Suggestion 1 - allow the year number at the top of the calendar to allow manual entry.
Suggestion 2 - allow manual entry into the birth date field (allowing users to type in the birth day, month. and year.
Thanks - Rob
1Password Version: 1Password for Windows 8.10.36 (81036046)
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: Windows 11 23H2
Browser: Chrome
Hi Dave. I couldn't get that to work - at first. It's tricky. You kinda have to pick any date on the calendar - even if it's the wrong date, and then keep clicking on the field you pointed to with the red arrow until it's highlighted AND the calendar pop-up goes away. THEN you can enter a date manually. It's VERY difficult to get the text entry field to highlight and NOT have the calendar pop up. But I got it to work. Whew! Thank you for the tip and passing the suggestion on to the programmer team.
-RobYes.... it works but it took 3-4 clicks to allow me to manually enter the year. Before finding this thread I assumed I was going to have to click for a long time..... and even holding down the mouse button doesn't work.
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Hello Tertius and cage22! 👋
Thank you for the feedback regarding the date picker. I've passed it along to the team so that they can look into improving the experience in the future.
For the time being, you can click on the individual sections of the date field to manually type in your month/day/year without using the date picker itself:
I hope that helps. 🙂
-Dave
ref: PB-40941400
ref: PB-40941431 Oy!! I never got that far. Once I realized that I'd have to spend hundreds of mouse clicks just to enter a date, I let it go and reported it here as a finding. Thank you for your comment and input.
It's especially nasty to click, because there are months with 6 week rows, so you have to reposition the mouse. If you fail this and click out of the date picker, it closes and you have to start again.
This date picker is not well designed.
