# Question about CHOICE
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/question-about-choice/12880
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/question-about-choice/12880 "2020-07-21T12:19:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Deena](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Deena)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/question-about-choice/12880/1 "2020-07-21T12:19:13Z")
Can you record the date that a Choice is made when using the choice component OUTSIDE of a form? Meaning, you add the single component vs. creating a form and adding multiple choices to it. In that case, you can capture via special value. I don’t think you can capture date since you can’t add the special value date to single choice without a form but just double checking. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Coupons\_Deal](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Coupons_Deal)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/question-about-choice/12880/2 "2020-07-21T12:47:35Z")
I suppose No. This has to be done by Formula/Script
You can check this Post might help you.
> [@Get Last Modified Date When Cell is changed](https://community.glideapps.com/t/get-last-modified-date-when-cell-is-changed/12359/3):
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> Oh I just realized if you enable the edit option for the item, you can capture the current datetime value into a field of your choice, so that’s the better option for you I suppose.
You can try Now() in formula if choice is not empty to capture the current datetime but it will override the value as the row gets updated anytime.
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### Author:  [@Deena](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Deena)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/question-about-choice/12880/3 "2020-07-21T12:53:04Z")
Thank you, this does help provide a solution! Knowing the limitation and the workaround required, I am going to opt to simply have the person making the choice enter the date using a date picker. This works okay for my use case because it’s a status choice being made by the app admin(s) so it only requires a few people to enter dates this way. Thanks again!