Saturday, August 13, 2016

dropdown - Best practice for selecting month/year


I have a form where users can choose a month and year to display a series of reports. (there is no need to choose the day - all the reports for that month will be displayed)



What is the best practice for this?


I can think of 3 options:




  1. Two drop downs (one for the month, one for the year) and a "GO" button.



    • Pro: Makes it easier to change the year only ("let's see what was going on in the same month last year")

    • Con: Requires another click on "GO" to refresh the page





  2. One drop down only, where months are listed as "JAN 2012", "FEB 2012" etc.



    • Pro: Can trigger an automated page refresh when the date is changed

    • Con: It is potentially difficult to scroll down or up many months




  3. Date picker with just month/year




    • Pro: Very intuitive

    • Con: Requires JavaScript enabled




What do you think?




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