Hello All,
Long time coder here - but great to be in the lo/no code development era. I have seen several posts here that request date filters to apply to blocks (tables, charts) within a dashboard. The solutions I have seen are as follows:
- AI vibe coding block to code the entire page with calendar date pick
- CSS code snippets
- Waiting for native date picker release from softr
I was a bit unhappy with all the options. So, I was playing around and found a hacky way to refresh several blocks within a page dynamically based on a date selection. These would apply to tables, items, charts, etc.
The quick overview of the solution is that
- add a date picker custom code block (static)
- have a item details to expose the selected date as URL param
- edit all relevant blocks to conditionally filter for current record (selected date)
If you want a detailed walk-through of this workaround, it is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AecsBBL9KMI . All the code snippets are also available to copy.
This seems to work well for a dashboard we built for a client. It does take a couple of seconds to refresh the charts and numbers, but this has been a huge improvement on the static pages we have been building for clients.
So yeah, feel free to use this for your business use case or clients. If you have a better way of doing this, please do let me know.
Happy no-coding! 