DateField Mask

RE: DateField Mask

Prasanta Paul — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 09:51:32 GMT

a!localVariables(
  local!a:02022024,
 {
   a!textField(
  label: "Date",
  value: text(local!a, "dd/mm/yyyy")
)
}
)

You can try like that but not a good practice.

RE: DateField Mask

Yogi Patel — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:19:49 GMT

Yes, we should use the Date field.

Also, it would be good if Appian provided this masking capability in future releases (automatically formatting date). This will increase data entry speed.

RE: DateField Mask

Stewart Burchell — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:48:12 GMT

So as Stefan Helzle says you could use a text field, apply the necessary validations, and then construct the date by extracting the day/month/year components and concatenating them into the relevant format before saving into the target variable.

But I have to ask why you feel it necessary to go to all that trouble. The data field provides all of the necessary validation, it'll adjust accordingly to different locales (e.g. mm/dd/yyyy for the US, dd/mm/yyyy for the UK), has a date picker, all of which costs the user two extra key strokes to include the "/" separator.

RE: DateField Mask

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:22:53 GMT

You could do that using a text field. Then parse the entered values into a date inside the saveInto.

RE: DateField Mask

Yogi Patel — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:05:57 GMT

AFAIK, this is not possible using datefield as of now.

RE: DateField Mask

shivakanthreddyp0001 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:56:06 GMT

There is no auto correct option as of now, can you please elaborate your requirement?