Selecting Dates

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In many places in the system you must enter or select dates for reports and various other functions.

There are a few different ways to select dates in a date dropdown component.

a.       Click the mouse over the field and manually enter the date, using arrow keys to move from month to day to year.  Tab out of the field to hold the date entered.

b.      Click the mouse over the drop down arrow, which is at the right of the field.  Doing this will invoke a calendar from which to select the date

To navigate through months within the calendar, you may: 

1) click the mouse over the month, which will invoke a drop down listing of months, and select the appropriate month
or 
2) click on the navigation arrow buttons to scroll through months 
or 
3) click the mouse over the listing of today’s date, at the bottom of the calendar, to set the date to today.

To navigate through years within the calendar, you may click on the year and use the up/down scroll buttons.

Finally, click on a date to complete the selection process and close the dropdown.

 

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