# Improve Date Picker
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [September 29, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482 "2022-09-29T21:00:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@MattW](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattW)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/1 "2022-09-29T21:00:25Z")
Hi, can you please improve the date picker option within Glide Pages? Currently, you have to manually select a year, month and day. It is quite time consuming when inputting a date such as an effective date of coverage for a policy written 10 years ago. Ideally, you could just type in a date with dd/mm/yyyy format and it would automatically make the date picker select that date. Hopefully that is doable and can be launched quickly. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@iamtomgray](https://community.glideapps.com/u/iamtomgray)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/2 "2022-10-16T14:24:38Z")
Hey @MattW,
Thanks for your patience. I’d suggest using a text or number entry column to achieve this?
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/3 "2022-10-16T21:10:57Z")
Except then you’d have no data validation…a user could type “bubblegum” and the app wouldn’t know better.
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### Author:  [@iamtomgray](https://community.glideapps.com/u/iamtomgray)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/4 "2022-10-17T21:58:14Z")
@MattW, you could add ‘dd/mm/yyyy’ as a placeholder to the text entry component. @Robert_Petitto is right: this is an issue.
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### Author:  [@iamtomgray](https://community.glideapps.com/u/iamtomgray)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/5 "2022-10-17T21:58:44Z")
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll circulate with the team.
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### Author:  [@MattW](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattW)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/6 "2022-11-01T15:07:51Z")
Thanks @iamtomgray and @Robert_Petitto! Do you have any update with this topic?
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/7 "2022-11-02T11:08:53Z")
No update as far as I’m aware.
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### Author:  [@MattW](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattW)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/8 "2022-11-08T04:37:50Z")
@iamtomgray Have you had a chance to discuss this with the Glide team? Hopefully this can be a quick fix. Thank you
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### Author:  [@MattW](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattW)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/9 "2022-11-14T19:51:11Z")
Hey @iamtomgray, do you have any update here? This use case would also help with things such as phone numbers, employer SICs, the year a business established, etc. We need a way to have custom data validation for fields like this in Glide. Please let me know!
cc @Robert_Petitto
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### Author:  [@MattW](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattW)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/10 "2022-12-14T01:13:16Z")
Hi @iamtomgray it’s been two months. Do you have an update yet? Thank you
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2022, 3:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/11 "2022-12-14T03:54:10Z")
Tom stepped down from his position at Glide. Better to talk to @tristan i think.
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### Author:  [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2022, 3:56am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/12 "2022-12-14T03:56:27Z")
make your own date picker, you might wait view moths or years 😉
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### Author:  [@MattW](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattW)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improve-date-picker/50482/13 "2022-12-22T05:00:24Z")
@david Can you please assist here? Thank you