Date¶

A calendar date, with no time. The user picks it from a calendar.

Use it for¶

The date of a visit, an event or a birth.
A deadline or a planned date.

Use DateTime when the time matters as well, and Time when the date is recorded elsewhere.

Settings¶

Every question has a Name, a Label, a Placeholder, Help Text, Required and Skip Logic. See Adding a question. Date adds one panel.

Setting	Description
Validation: Rule	None, Only past date or Only future date. The default is None.

Validation¶

Rule	Message
Only past date	Please choose a past date.
Only future date	Please choose a future date.

The rule compares the date with the moment the user submits. Today counts as a past date, and not as a future date.

Note

The rule is checked on the web form and by the server for web submissions. The 3D app does not check it. A submission from the app with a date outside the rule is accepted.

Combinations that matter¶

Skip Logic on another question can compare the date: equals, before, after, and so on.
A calculated field can take the parts of a date with year(visit_date), month(visit_date) and day(visit_date), and compare two dates with end_date >= start_date. There is no date arithmetic. See Auto Calculated.
An advanced validation rule on a second date can enforce an order, such as end_date >= start_date. See Advanced validation.

How it looks¶

On the web the question is a date picker that shows the date as 28-Sep-26. In the 3D app a calendar button opens a calendar.

The calendar in the 3D app:

The calendar in the 3D app

The question's settings, on the web, with the rule set to Only past date:

The settings dialogue for a Date question

The data¶

Where	What you get
The record	The date.
The data table	The date as `28-Sep-26`.
An export	One date column. CSV shows `28-Sep-26`. Excel holds a date cell.
A formula or Skip Logic	The date.

DateTime for a date with a time.
Time for a time with no date.