Display “Day entities” that contain Stuff, by day and by period

Question

I have something like Things that happened this day that can be either of TypeA or TypeB.

I want to display Day items per period and also display inside each Day item some info about its TypeA's and TypeB's items.

Example

-- This Month
---- Day1
------TypeA-Example.Description()
------TypeA-Example2.Description()
------TypeB-Example.Description()
---- Day2
-- Last 4 Months

At the moment I use the DevExpress GalleryControl. This allows items to be added that contain only title and description among an image.

Question: How can I efficiently show this set of entities?

Answer 1

The best analog for this that I can think of is calendars which list activities on a particular day. The day may have many events or few, so the height of a particular item should be flexible. Thus I would use a control that allows for days with mixed heights.

I don't believe that the ordering in this list will be confusing, as the variable height of items will encourage vertical scanning rather than horizontal.

Indicate that the items can be individually selected by making them links. It is a bit odd for an application to use web style links, but it's one of the most compact way to afford clicking. I indicated the difference between A and B with color, but you could use typography, background, or nothing if the difference is not important to display.

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