Datepicker: Ability to differentiate whether a selected event is triggered by clicking on a calendar cell or by clicking on a date in the calendar's datepicker

[sami1riaz]

Is your feature request related to a problem or use case? Please describe.
The Soho Calendar currently triggers the same event (SohoCalendarDateSelectedEvent) when a date in the datepicker is clicked on and when a calendar cell is clicked on. We would like to be able to differentiate between the two events.

It would also be nice to be able to differentiate between events that are triggered from clicking the Today button and clicking into a new month's date.

Describe the solution you'd like
Ideally, a property set for the event that can indicate where the action is being triggered from (datepicker, calendar cell, today button e.t.c) would help us to set different behaviours based on that property

Describe alternatives you've considered
N/A

Additional context
We are trying to open a modal when a cell in the calendar is clicked on. We do not want a modal to be opened when a date in the date picker is clicked on though. If there was a property on the SohoCalendarDateSelectedEvent that can tell us where the event is being triggered from, we can then use that to check if the modal should be opened or not.

[tmcconechy]

I suggest adding an action setting in the event https://github.com/infor-design/enterprise/blob/main/src/components/monthview/monthview.js#L2197 that will let you differentiate.

Also we need to add the type for this.

[sami1riaz]

@tmcconechy , I noticed that this is also creating an accessibility issue. When a user uses the arrow keys to navigate the calendar cells, the selected event is triggered causing a modal to open up (if that is the behavior set for the selected event). Any suggestions regarding that?

[tmcconechy]

In our example https://main-enterprise.demo.design.infor.com/components/calendar/example-index.html it does not come up when you use the arrow key. This is because we use dbl-click to show the modal not arrow key?

[sami1riaz]

Our design does not use double click to open the modal. We're using the selected event so its causing an issue for us. I can discuss that with our designers/BAs to see if we should use double click to open the modal. But would this be considered a limitation for the component? Not being able to differentiate between selecting a cell and navigating to a cell?

Kind of like how our date picker allows us to navigate using arrow keys and only if you click on a date (or press enter or space) then it selects that date.

[tmcconechy]

In our example we also provided a button in addition to dblclick. I would do that and maybe even consider a shortcut key. Click wont work as its already the action for clicking the day. Unless you always want a dialog to show when you click it.