a!dateField - How to clear the dateField if I enter wrong format date. By default appian says "the value ..... is not a valid date. Valid format is ....". Even without value and saveInto the wrong format value is saved in the field.

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a!dateField - How to clear the dateField if I enter wrong format date. By default appian says "the value ..... is not a valid date. Valid format is ....". Even without value and saveInto the wrong format value is saved in the field. Without this value and saveInto if I enter the corrected formatted date then the value is not saved but the wrong value is still displayed in the field.

Poorna Guduri · Answer

In such kind of Dynamic scenarios, we will definitely be configuring the value and saveInto parameters to the respective SAIL components, to persist the value, instead of avoiding them during configuration. 
1. With Appian&#x27;s default validation behaviour we can achieve the basic validation on the field 
2. If you have a custom validation that can be achieved by defining validation rules 
3. Finally, a value can be valid while entering and may be invalid after sometime in future, this can also be achieved and so the user can see the previous value he entered in the dateField with a validation message that we configure using the custom validations on the field. 
In all of the above scenarios, configuring the value and saveInto parameters is obvious!!