# \[IGN-6019\]Perspective DateTime Picker Component - multiple date selection?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-6019-perspective-datetime-picker-component-multiple-date-selection/58837>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-6019-perspective-datetime-picker-component-multiple-date-selection/58837 "2022-04-25T21:07:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![swolnisty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@swolnisty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/swolnisty)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-6019-perspective-datetime-picker-component-multiple-date-selection/58837/1 "2022-04-25T21:07:29Z")

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Is there a reason that the Perspective DateTime Picker component does not allow selection of multiple dates? It would be nice if it could be configured to return a range of dates similar to how the history range selector on the Power Chart works.

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**Author:** ![CosmoStevens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cosmostevens/32/32309_2.png) [@CosmoStevens](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/CosmoStevens)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-6019-perspective-datetime-picker-component-multiple-date-selection/58837/2 "2022-04-28T22:07:08Z")

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Hello,

The DateTime Picker Component is only designed to select a single date. However, with only a little bit of work you should be able to make something with similar functionality. You could either use two DateTime Picker components side by side, or place two DateTime Picker components on top of each other and add a toggle to determine which one you are selecting from.

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**Author:** ![swolnisty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@swolnisty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/swolnisty)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-6019-perspective-datetime-picker-component-multiple-date-selection/58837/3 "2022-04-28T22:13:48Z")

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Sure, there are many ways to manually configure a view to select two separate dates. It just seems a little strange that we should have to at all when a modified version of this already exists within some of the chart components, like the Power Chart:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/9/e96c7fafc1af730de90ab8e6e996b48a63887b43.png)

And let’s be honest, I think the end user experience of the IA designed component above is much nicer than what I could create myself. 🙂

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**Author:** ![CosmoStevens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cosmostevens/32/32309_2.png) [@CosmoStevens](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/CosmoStevens)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-6019-perspective-datetime-picker-component-multiple-date-selection/58837/4 "2022-04-29T21:11:41Z")

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Honestly, that does sound like a pretty good feature request. If you are interested, you could make a feature request [here](https://ideas.inductiveautomation.com/ignition-features-and-ideas).

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**Author:** ![swolnisty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@swolnisty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/swolnisty)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-6019-perspective-datetime-picker-component-multiple-date-selection/58837/5 "2022-05-05T15:19:13Z")

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Looks like there already is a feature request for this:

> **[Perspective - date picker that allows selecting date range | Voters |...](https://inductiveautomation.canny.io/ignition-features-and-ideas/p/perspective-date-picker-that-allows-selecting-date-range)**

I guess I’ll add my vote to it and see if it gets picked up.

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**Author:** ![prasath.t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@prasath.t](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/prasath.t)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-6019-perspective-datetime-picker-component-multiple-date-selection/58837/6 "2024-02-28T16:33:20Z")

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@victordcq

This is the post. Still now there is no solution found. If you any idea to crack it please let us know