How to make sure a user does not enter a past date in a date field?

[Shiv Sharma]

We have a date field (Implementation Date), which should always be a future date. How  to make sure a user does not enter a past date in this date field? Ideally we'd want to display an error message if user enters a date earlier than {{now}}.

In Automation Rule, I can easily specify an IF condition:

{{issue.ImplementationDate}} is less than {{now}}

However, I do not see a suitable action in the list of possible actions.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Shiv.

[Bharat Kalia · Accepted solution]

Hello @Shiv Sharma - Have have you checked on the KB article - https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-prevent-users-from-selecting-previous-or-past-date-in-date-type-custom-field-1108678878.html. If the custom field is being used in the Jira software, you can add the validator as per the above KB article. 

I think that will make sure, the past date has not been selected. If you don't want to use the validator the best would to make a comment on the ticket with the conditional check on the date and then tagging the user who made that change with an error message. 

Please let me know if this helps

Thanks,

-Bharat 

[Shiv Sharma]

Hi Bharat,

This helped. Thank you so much!

Shiv.