I cannot select birthday year in date picker using Liferay Forms

Issue

• I have a form with a date field
• The date field should be used to select birthdays
• The year-selector goes back only 5 years prior to the current year

Environment

• Liferay DXP 7.1
• Liferay DXP 7.2
• Liferay DXP 7.3
• Liferay DXP 7.4

Resolution

• Due to a combination of style and usability aspects, the date picker was implemented like this on purpose. This is hard coded into the product.
• Our developers restricted the date range to +-5 years.
• The expected result can be achieved with the following workarounds:
  
  
  1. Type the birth date instead of select it through the Date Picker.
  2. Navigate through the years, hitting the range limits. When the user clicks on the minor year, then the range of years is re-calculated and the minor year becomes the minor year minus 5. Also, the same behavior happens to the max year. For example, consider a range of years, like [2015,...,2020,...,2025], if the user clicks on 2025, then the new range will be [2020,...,2025,...,2030], allowing the user to select years not available on the initial range of years.

Additional Information

• A feature request ticket is available under LPS-113259, so that the Product Team considers whether the Date Picker field could better cover the birthday use case in the future.
• You might vote or comment on the Feature Request to give it more visibility.