As the title suggests I am looking for a way to prevent my users from selecting a date before the current day in a date picker in a Confiforms form. I know that there is an option to add regex. Has anyone tried this? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!
-Curtis
You cannot modify the date picker itself, but you can setup the validation rule for your form to accept the dates after the certain date
This page demoes the concept and accepts the dates after today
Hey Alex! I was able to follow the link and get the example form in to my space. I have the validation working and it sends my error message. The issue I am facing now is that my forms have multiple date pickers. Certain date pickers are only shown when other fields are selected. For example: I have a normal request and a miscellaneous request in the same form. the fields differ depending on if Normal or Miscellaneous is selected in the drop down. If the user selects Normal, and fills out all accompanying information the form will not submit because the date picker in Miscellaneous is not passing validation because the empty picker is not showing as a date in the future. Am I able to set multiple conditions? Or would I need to set up an extra rule somehow?
As always thanks for the great responses!
Well, just tune the condition in the rule to only apply when necessary
Meaning something like - when the selection in some other field matches some value and the date is not empty and not after "today" then show the error message
For example, like is shown here - we only "require" field value when the other field is checked
Thanks Alex! I was trying && instead of AND which was not working. I made this simple correction and it works as expected. 👍
I just cannot get this to work......Field is called Desired Launch Date
Set the validation on the field to DesiredLaunchDate:<[entry._today]
Added a validation defition and set that to the same DesiredLaunchDate:<[entry._today]
Still lets me pick any date I want. Clearly i'm misunderstanding and doing something wrong.
Hi
You cannot prevent this in UI, but you can validate the data submitted and prevent this from being submitted
Have you set this as a condition in your ConfiForms Field Definition Rule?
Have you also selected action to be "validate" and defined the message to show when the validation fails?
Alex
So on the field, I have validation set to DesiredLaunchDate:<[now] on the field - no separate field definition rule.
But this fails ALL the time. I can't pick any date. I just want to block future dates.
Do I need to use the additional field definition rule?
Ah - that was my issue - its working now! Thanks for you help!!!
Hi @Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ I am trying to set a validation rule for a date field called deadline. The field is controlled by another one that has only two options (newCustomer, existingCustomer). What I want to achieve is. If newCustomer is selected the user cannot select today as the date, so basically today should be block (see attached images). If existingCustomer is selected then the user should have a block of 10 business days and only that day after can be selected (see images for representation). Right now, I have set up two rules definitions where the validation code is as follow:Option1deadlineSubmission:>[entry._today] AND typeCustomer:newBusinessOption2deadlineSubmission:>[entry._today]+10 AND typeCustomer:existingCustomerI am tracking the two fields but it is not working, I can select any dates and today's date with no warning or error. Please let me know what am I doing wrong.
Validation rule with a condition like below
deadlineSubmission:<([today]+10)) AND typeCustomer:existingCustomer
([today]+
10
))
Perfect, thank you, it works. But for the first one I could not make it work, where it is simply avoiding today. I tried these three combinations but I was still able to select today:
deadlineSubmission:<([today])) AND typeCustomer:newBusiness
([today]
deadlineSubmission:<([today]) AND typeCustomer:newBusiness
)
deadlineSubmission:<[today] AND typeCustomer:newBusiness
[today]
Also, as a further questions. This only gives the error at the end where the user tries to save the entry. Is there anyway that can be block directly while the user is selecting the date? Or even have it graded out like in the calendar like shown in the images?
Again, a validation rule, with a given condition
deadlineSubmission:[entry._today] AND typeCustomer:newBusiness
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