Dates
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Because collecting accurate dates is important in the context of local government transactions, which often have statutory / legislative consequences, we have powerful no code functionality.
When one clicks to add a Date field type the following is presented:
There are three different version of date input available to you and these are controlled by the following options:
Display a single field instead of three separate fields
If this is checked (the default), the date will be a plain box and the user will enter the date in one string i.e. 01/12/2021.
If this is unchecked, it will appear as follows:
The boxes themselves illustrate the expected date format.
Date Display Type
This setting controls whether a calendar picker is presented or not. There are two options:
Text Input - where the customer types the date (this is the default)
Calendar Picker - where a customer can either type the date OR pick from the calendar that pops up:
You have the ability to control what a user can enter in terms of dates. This has TWO options.
The first is Static date validation.
To provide an example of this let's say you have a date field you want to add where the customer can only choose a date in a given financial year.
In this case today's date is not really relevant, what is though is the date range the customer can enter a date within I.e. for the past financial year the date range would be 01/04/2018 and 31/03/2019. This is how you can do this using the new date validation functionality where the range is static:
The second is the smarter Dynamic date validation
This is the one that will be used A LOT by you. So let's say you want a date field to not allow any dates:
earlier than 1 month ago from today AND
not allow dates any further in the future or later than 14 days away from today
The following illustrates how the new dynamic date validation makes this possible:
The drop down in the above which contains the 'Today' value can be changed to be:
Today
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Today is the default as it is most logical and likely to be used. The 'Operator' drop down can contain:
Plus
Minus
With the defaults set to minus/plus for earliest/latest respectively as it is most logical.
The time span drop down has options of:
Days
Months
Years
Weekly isn't there as one can, for example, use 21 days for 3 weeks.
Finally, note that it is possible to add validation to the earliest valid date but not the latest valid date and vice versa. And in the same vein you can also say for example:
Earliest date should be static and no earlier than 01/01/2019
Latest date should be dynamic and no more in the future than 3 months
