dates standardized. do all of this on staging to test and then we can do it on production
[ ] find all of the date fields. are any of them free text? are there a few common formats/patterns we can use to write a script to standardize that data?
[ ] update all of the date fields to use the Django model date fields
[ ] write a script that converts the existing date data into the standardized format
[ ] do this on the production database
filtering updated to select date range rather than selecting from a list of unique values
[ ] is this for the search or the CRUD forms? either way, we'll need to use the django forms to render select widgets with the dates
form for Editing or adding a new documents should have a date selector rather than simple text input
[ ] standardizing the models' date fields to use a django model date field should help with this. the form should just render a date selector by default. if this doesn't work then we'll need to figure out what's wrong
These updates should be made across all data sets (Flat Drawings, Licenses, Surveys, etc.)