topic RE: Interact Date Field restrictions in Product Forum

Interact Date Field restrictions

Rhian.Lowe — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:57:00 GMT

Hi.
I have an issue with a mandatory date field. It is supposed to be a person's date of birth but users keep entering today's date. This causes an exception further down the line.
What do I need to do in interact to stop this from happening. The field is already set to "past date" I had a go playing with the past date restriction but it still allowed me to enter today's date.

Thanks in advance

Rhian

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Rhian Lowe
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RE: Interact Date Field restrictions

joefarr — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:34:00 GMT

Hi Rhian

You are right, it does allow today's date, and you can only restrict the start date, not the end date.

I do have a workaround for you. You can't remove the ability to add today's date but you can add a rule to state that if the date entered is after a particular date, a paragraph or field appears that informs the user that they have entered an invalid date. Would that work for you?

Cheers

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Joe Farr
Senior Product Specialist
Blue Prism Limited
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RE: Interact Date Field restrictions

Rhian.Lowe — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:45:00 GMT

Hi Joe.

With that rule, could I state if the date was "today's" date rather than a specific date?

Thanks

Rhian

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Rhian Lowe
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RE: Interact Date Field restrictions

joefarr — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:38:00 GMT

Unfortunately not, which means it won't work for all use cases. But if there is a date you could use as a control date, then it would work. If you set it as "today", i.e. the date when you create the form, then that's the date that will remain, it's not a variable of TODAY.

Cheers

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Joe Farr
Senior Product Specialist
Blue Prism Limited
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