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How to stop Text Field reformatting dates?

Savannah2019

So I've noticed that text fields in arcgis online are reformatting dates. How do I stop this? I made it a text field for a reason. I want "October 2023" to appear, not "10/1/2023". The only way I can get it to stop doing this is to put in extra text, but I don't want that.

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RussRoberts

I think I found the issue

- If you can open the web map in https://ago-assistant.esri.com/

- Check the field under fieldinfos and see if the property format exists.

- If a format exists and it says shortdate

- if its there you can delete it from the JSON in the assistant

What caused this? I think possibly the original map created had the layer being used the field was originally a date field. The layer was overwritten and the field was changed to a string field but the web map still contained the date formatting.

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RussRoberts

Can you share your map and I can take a look? thanks!

EarlMedina

If you can use Arcade, then you can do:

 Text($feature.DateField, 'MMM Y')

Savannah2019

Unfortunately, no. It has some internal information, so I can't.

Savannah2019

Hi, it's not a date field- it's a text field. That's my problem. Using Text($.feature.TextField) does work and resets it to it's actual input value, but I don't want to have to create a text field and then an arcade function to have to say what I already wrote. If I could skip that, that'd be ideal.

RussRoberts

Are you setting the formatting on the fields

Savannah2019

It's a text field, not a date field, so I don't even have that option. That's what is so confusing to me!

Text field:

Formatting options:

I can add additional text and it'll stop trying to convert it to a date, but it isn't ideal:

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