Prevent users from entering a date in the past

[Bill Davis]

We have created a custom date field and we want to prevent users from selecting a date in the prior month or even a date in the past.

Is there a standard way of achieving this or is there a plug-in that is available.

Any help would be appreciated...thanks!

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

If you are using this field only on workflow transitions, you can use some of the existing validators.

But if you want this field on the edit screens, you would need a new custom field type that does this validation. That will be a new plugin I guess.

[Bill Davis]

Do you have the name of the existing validator that may work, all I see for Validators is Date Compare and Window dates that relate to the dates. Is it one of those?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

I don't remember which one it was. Can you try Date Compare and validate your Date field is after updated date?

[Bill Davis]

Thanks Jobin, we got the Date Compare to work for us.

[Dieter]

If you want to use the Groovy Runner Script plugin to validate you could use this code which validates that the entered date/time is from this month or later. I'm not sure if existing plugins can check this exactly

import org.apache.log4j.Category
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.IssueChangeHolder
import com.opensymphony.workflow.InvalidInputException
 
// replace 10000 by number of date time custom field that must be validated 
def fieldname = "customfield_10000"

ComponentManager componentManager = ComponentManager.getInstance()
CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = componentManager.getCustomFieldManager()
CustomField field = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(fieldname)
 
Date value = issue.getCustomFieldValue(field)
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance()
Calendar entered_date = Calendar.getInstance()
entered_date.setTime value

if (entered_date.get(Calendar.MONTH) == now.get(Calendar.MONTH) && entered_date.get(Calendar.YEAR) == now.get(Calendar.YEAR))
	return;
	
if (now.before(entered_date))
	return;
	
invalidInputException = new InvalidInputException("Entered date is invalid! Must be from this month or later")