Auto date inserted in a Form

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Is it possible to have the auto date insertion in a form?
eg My form will require people to sign into an event and it is required to put in the date. Just wondering if I could automate that field so it’s one less thing people have to fill in.

Thanks Jeanette

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What is that “date”? Is it the date of the event, the date that the user fills the form, or another type of date?

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Apologies. It will be the date they enter the venue. The event will last for 5 days.
It’s a COVID App that people will be required to fill in prior to entering.

Thanks.

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There is a special values section that contains components with automatic values. Date is one of them. Just include it with your form entry.

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Just to confirm, I can’t do it for a field I’ve called ‘date’ on a form. But the solution is to add another component to the layout?

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Find this component in your form and point that to your “Date” column.

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Perfect, thank you :slight_smile:

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Also remember to go to your Editor afterwards and format the date to be as you wish.

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Yes, I was just about to look at doing that. I just formatted the Date column in my google spreadsheet. Is that what you meant? I couldn’t see how to do it within Glide itself?

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Go to your Data Editor, find that column and click “Edit”.

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Thanks, that was too easy! Appreciate your very fast responses :slight_smile:

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