It dosn't seem to work for when you are updating a status for more than one task. Is there a way to do this or I am missing something?

wouldn't mind a date picker, using fingers to work out how many days until next Thursday is sub optimal

Yes please - counting fingers and toes to get to the right date that you want it back on the workboard is painful - give us a custom date please :)

Hi Jolene, we are going to work on improving this to be like this, you can easily select options or configure to an extact date.