Add ability to control date appearance in Survey123

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05-16-2018 06:38 AM
Status: Open
BrentKinal1
Occasional Contributor III

Currently the date appearance in Survey123  is tied to the date format in the device settings, on a Samsung Android phone this is in the format: Day of Week, Month DD, YYYY (Wednesday, May 16, 2018) unfortunately there is not enough screen real estate on most smartphones to accommodate a string this long. It would be great to be able control the date format from the Appearance field and add the ability to have a shortened date display (e.g. mm/dd/yy) on smaller screens. There are probably a few other permutations of a date format that would meet others needs as well.

4 Comments
ScottPrindle

Hello Brent Kinal,

Thank you for submitting this idea!

When voting for this idea, please consider sharing your use case, or how this functionality would fit into your existing or future projects. How are you dealing with this now? In your view, what requirements would need to be considered for this idea?

Thanks,

Scott

RachelS

Yes, I would like the ability to change the format to dd/mm/yyyy when editing the survey.

MelodeeBassett

Not only is the date section unconfigurable, the time section also needs to be configurable.  In my Survey123 form (tied to a feature service) the datetime type allows the date section to take up too much of the line, so the time is cut off.  The AM/PM is overlooked, and thus not updated correctly during entry.  After all, we humans are lazy by nature!

BenSmith6

Even the ability to use standard Esri nomenclature for datetimes in the appearance box, so we can set it to the correct format, rather than the American one