Use of Show when to display a text field for today or future date

So, first let's look at the syntax. You have a redundant if() statement. showWhen takes a Boolean vakue, which can be true or false,. So as long as your expression returns a true or false - e.g.local!selectedDate=today() - then you do not need the if() statement.

Now to your actual problem. It's not clear if you mean 5 months or 5 days from today. I'll take a look at each:

1. make this text field visible if selected date is today or 5 days from today:

showWhen: or(
local!selectedDate=today(),
local!selectedDate=today()+5
)

2. make this text field visible if selected date is today or 5 months from today. 

This depends onw hat you mean by "5 months from today". Do you mean the 5 x 4 weeks from now? If so that's just a simple calculation where you multiple the 4 weeks by 7 days and add that on as per the previous example. But there may be other definitions of "month" that you have in mind?

Thanks for reply..i mean today or any future date

Hah! Ok:

showWhen: local!selectedDate>=today()

Anyway thanks .. i was able to figure out the solution..