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Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

ColinRichardson — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:57:43 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to create an experience builder application and am having issues with displaying my date fields in the tables within experience builder. My date fields have a lock by them when I open the table in Arcgis Online, map viewer, as can be seen in the photo below:

In experience builder when I create a table from the same feature, I don't even have the option to display the dates field.

The only way I could find to actually display the date field in an experience builder table was to upload the field as a date and let the program assign a time. However the time doesn't make any sense for this data as it is related to samples for days, times aren't recorded. I've tried uploading the excel file directly and changing the date field to a string data type but arcgis online will automatically assign a time and I can't assign a date only field when uploading directly because of limitations to that function.

Any help or guidance would be much appreciated been stuck on this for a bit now.

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

TonghuiMing — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:23:27 GMT

Hi @ColinRichardson

Experience Builder has not yet enabled the date-only and time-only fields. We will keep a record of this and see if an enhancement can be done in the future. Thanks for bringing this up.

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

jrotramel — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:13:37 GMT

I second the vote for this enhancement. I just ran into the same problem and came across this thread. Thanks!

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

EllieLinden — Sun, 26 May 2024 15:55:45 GMT

Is this also a limitation within the ArcGIS Dashboards app? I'm facing a similar limitation when trying to use a "Date Only" field in the Dashboards, where the app appears to only be able to connect with a "Date" field.

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

sosero — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:36:31 GMT

@EllieLinden ,

For Dashboard, we have it currently logged as an Enhancement Internally. ENH-000167843.

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

KPyne — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:41:33 GMT

Hello, I assume this enhancement would also extend to Experience Builder?

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

EJCarter — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 05:19:23 GMT

I had a similar issue with the Edit widget in Experience Builder; I was wanting the Date field to be visible and editable for users but the associated (and irrelevant) Time field could not be hidden.

The work-around I found was to configure a Form in the underlying webmap and set the Input Type to Date (not Date and Time). The Edit widget in Experience Builder honored the Form settings when the Edit widget's Layer Configuration had the Configure Fields option set to Use webmap settings.

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

MeganEngel — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:03:29 GMT

Any news on this enhancement? I see the date only field is allowed when you use the webmap settings in the edit widget, but not when you use the customize setting in the edit widget

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

MeganEngel — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:06:56 GMT

@EJCarter , I used this workflow by creating a form in the webmap and that was honored in the edit widget. Great work around!!

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

Elizabeth_Burniston — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:09:40 GMT

@EJCarter - Thank you SO MUCH for posting this work-around!! I used it today and it worked perfectly!

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

MichaelAugust — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:49:34 GMT

Does any one know how to apply this workaround to a Survey 123 Form? I don't think the 'date only' data type works and simply configuring the pop-up attributes is not honored by the ExB editor widget...thanks!

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

AlexandHall95 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 06:52:17 GMT

Hi,

Is this also true of Dashboards?

ESRI's guidance documentation seems to have become extremely hard to use and fragmented across an endless number of individual guidance web pages and community forum posts. This should be made very clear that the Date Only type is NOT compatible with most ESRI web applications, or it should have been only put into production when this issue was resolved.

I feel like the basic product level has massively declined compared to other web based geospatial systems in recent years.

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

JoeStefanoni — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:31:51 GMT

My issue is that in Notebook I am not able to create a feature class with date fields when the original data had date only fields even though I specify that that is the field type I want. Is there a solution to this problem? When I run the Export Features tool and use the same data set and specifications it works but when I take that same python script and put it in Notebook it doesn't work. Why would ESRI include this new field type before it was compatible with all ESRI products?

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

DavidlMason — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:26:33 GMT

Is Date Only on the Road map to be introduced to Experience Builder yet?

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

JeffKaplan_Boston — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:45:59 GMT

Serious need for this "enhancement" - hard to see the point of date only fields on feature services if they are not supported in experience builder. Would love to see an update on when we could expect this to be available so we can plan rolling out date only fields to many of our ETL automated feature services. Thanks.

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

LeviCecil — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:15:42 GMT

Agreed. These field types have been available for at least a year, but are incompatible with most ESRI products outside of Pro. Why does ESRI continue to release things that don't work??

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

sosero — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:48:53 GMT

@Levin @JeffKaplan_Boston

This Enhancement request is currently under consideration. Our Experience Builder team is aware and looking to address it in the near future. Here is the Enhancement request logged. ENH-000169157.

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

JeffKaplan_Boston — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:48:01 GMT

Thanks @sosero, happy to provide input to the ExB team on the need for this if they are looking for feedback. It would be a huge benefit to the data our city collects, which is often not at the granularity of date & time.

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

sosero — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:19:39 GMT

@JeffKaplan_Boston ,

Absolutely. We will love to hear how your City will benefit and your Ideas as well. Feel free to Open a case, and our technical support team will be able to assist further.

Re: Date only Field won't display in ArcGIS Experience Builder Tables

TonghuiMing — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:15:06 GMT

The Date Only and Time Only fields are now supported in Experience Builder, in the recent June AGOL updates.

(Note that some widgets have external dependencies, so the support might not be complete or ready, like Table or Chart. They will come in future releases.)