Monday, June 29, 2015
Calendar, Multi-Column Grouping, and Sorting in the upcoming July 2015 Release

The upcoming release 8.5.5.0 will incude the brand new Calendar view style, mini-calendar on the sidebar, ability to sort, and group data by multiple columns in Touch UI.  The release is expected to go out in the third week of July. The screen shots show the working version of the features, which may change at the time of release.

Calendar View Style

“Year” mode displays a full calendar with indication of data activity.

Year mode of Calendar view style in Touch UI

This mode scales in a responsive fashion on the phones.

Year mode of Calendar view style in Touch UI on a small screen

“Month” mode  shows a vertically scrollable infinite list of months.

Month mode of Calendar view style in Touch UI

This is how it scales on smaller screen.

Month mode of Calendar view style in Touch UI on a small screen

“Week” mode provides a horizontally scrollable wireframe of data.

Week mode of Calendar view style in Touch UI

Week mode of Calendar view style in Touch UI on a small screen

“Day” mode reduces “week” presentation to a single day.

Day mode of Calendar view style in Touch UI

Day mode of Calendar view style in Touch UI on a small screen

Smaller form factor will migrate calendar mode selector to the view selector.

Mode selector of calendar view style migrates to the view selector in Touch UI

Mini-calendar in Sidebar

The brand new mini-calendar feature works in “see all” mode of display. It complements well the calendar view style as can be seen in the pictures above. Mini-calendar also works with the other view styles as well. Mini-calendar becomes visible as soon as at least one “date” field is detected in the dataset.

Mini-calendar will be integrated in the Desktop UI in release 8.5.6.0.

Click on a day to select a week. If a day in a selected week is clicked or touched then the “day” selection mode is activated. If the selected day is clicked or touched then “week” selection mode is activated.

Mini-calendar in List view style of an app with Touch UI

 

Mini-calendar in Cards view style of an app with Touch UI

Mini-calendar in Charts view style of an app with Touch UI

Mini-calendar in Grid view style of an app with Touch UI

Multi-Column Sorting

Users can now sort by multiple columns. Taping of column names will set the sort order. Subsequent tapping will cycle sorting of the fields between “ascending”, “descending”, and “none”.

Users of apps with Touch UI can configure multi-column sorting.

Multi-Column Grouping

Powerful new feature bring the grouping capabilities in the hands of developers and end users.

This screenshot shows employees grouped by “Reports To” field displays in “Cards” view style.

Grouping of employees by Reports To field in an app with Touch UI

This screenshot shows products grouped by Supplier Company Name and Category Name.

Multi-column grouping of products in an app with Touch UI

Multi-column grouping works as extension to multi-column sorting. Data is sorted first by “group by” columns and then by “sort by” columns.