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December 6, 2023
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Date field on custom form to have an option to choose span of dates

  • December 6, 2023
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It would be awesome to have an option for the custom Date field to be able to put in a span of dates
Example: we'll use the date field to ask when the event is, but they can only put 1 day in, but the event might run over several days.

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Level 2
December 6, 2023

Description - opportunity to create a new custom date field, that only has a month and year, not a specific day of the month

Why is this feature important to you - we do our reporting by month, and having to select a day of the month skus our data and adds a bit of confusion

How would you like the feature to work - exact same as our current date features, but updated to only include month and year

Current Behaviour - we do not have the ability to customize to only keep month and year. as a result i created a custom text box for users to manually type a month and year. this works, but it is very manual and inconsistent 

RandyRoberts
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
December 7, 2023

That couldn't be a "date" field. Date fields inherently have dates, not date ranges.

What you're asking for is a date range; anything between the start and end of the month. This request is the same as this "idea":  https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/date-field-on-custom-form-to-have-an-option-to-choose-span-of/idi-p/637809

Can we merge these? @jon_chen 

RandyRoberts
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
December 7, 2023

Agreed, I guess the only way you can do that now would be a start date field and an end date field.

That would have to be a new field type of "Date Range" or something like that.