idea Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction in ArcGIS Field Maps Ideas

Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

BenWalker1 — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:00:45 GMT

If I have a field, like a survey creation date, it should possible to set it to be today's date without the user needing to open a separate dialog box and then confirm todays date. this will reduce the number of clicks the users needs to have with the form.

Re: Setting the date field to Today sets the date without user iteration

RobertKacir — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:00:32 GMT

This could be achieved through editor tracking already present as functionality in ESRI geodatabases and ArcGIS Online hosted feature layers.

Re: Setting the date field to Today sets the date without user iteration

SteveOwens — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:18:26 GMT

You can make the it default to today's date by typing "now()" in the calculation column of the XLS form, see attached screenshot. Hope this helps.

Re: Setting the date field to Today sets the date without user iteration

BenWalker1 — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:53:14 GMT

We could use edit tracking, but I expect that sometimes a date in the past might need to be entered. So the primary use case is to use today's date, but sometimes a user might need to put the day before.

Re: Setting the date field to Today sets the date without user iteration - Status changed to: Under Consideration

DougMorgenthaler — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 04:49:34 GMT

Re: Setting the date field to Today sets the date without user iteration

JonathanMcDougall — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 06:40:44 GMT

@SteveOwens

Always nice to know, but we're talking Field Maps not Survey123.

@BenWalker1

The use of dates has always frustrated me, everything from 1869 or 1899 onwards! Having a very simple auto-populated field, visible to the user when the inspection is being carried out, without the need to confirm it, would be so helpful. New Inspection - date/time populated in the desired field.

Fully appreciate the use of dates through edit tracking, but can get a wee bit messy when trying to spatially represent and symbolise a relationship class through a join.

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

ReinhardtBotha — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 07:51:48 GMT

This would be a great feature to have.

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

TylerBragg2 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:09:52 GMT

I'd like to see this feature as well. I have a date field with conditional visibility based on a "status" field. When the user updates the status field to "Closed", they must enter the "date closed", and I would like for the date field to auto-populate based on today's date so they don't have to select it manually.

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

BrittanyBurson — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:39:43 GMT

Agreed! Would love to see this. Always looking to reduce the number of taps required.

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

HillarySherrill — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:46:16 GMT

How it stands, it is too many clicks. I support this change as well!

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

nspittlemeister_LCFPD — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:45:37 GMT

In my opinion, this needed to happen yesterday! Would be great functionality to have and would save our field users a lot of time.

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

helgesmebye — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:48:51 GMT

This is absolutely a must! We have gotten so many complains about having to select current date by the people using it in the field. They hate extra typing when they are in a hurry!

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

GuyWeerasingheAWE — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 23:34:55 GMT

Supportive of this, hopefully this can also be not just limited to "Date" but "time" as well

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

LouiseHarris1 — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:40:41 GMT

I would like to see this functionality to reduce the number of clicks users have to do and improve efficiency in data collection.

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction - Status changed to: In Product Plan

DougMorgenthaler — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 05:29:06 GMT

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

JohannesKeizer — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:22:12 GMT

Great news: in Product Plan! Any idea when this will be released?

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

ANRGIS — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 18:58:59 GMT

I would love to know when this will be implemented. It should have been something that was added in the Field Forms configuration. I see a "default date" configuration option, but it's not enabled:

If we could set this to Today() like you can in Survey123, it would be ideal.

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

Gisbert61 — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 06:58:26 GMT

Yes, definitely a must have to autopopulate the date field. Thanks for having it in the product plan already.

Bert

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction

JustinReynolds — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:02:55 GMT

It is not enough to have it set to Today() or Now()... it must also be editable after the fact. There will be cases where data will be entered after the date in which a service is performed.

Field calculations are supported in Field Maps now, but if the field is calculated "Allow Editing" must be disabled.

The default Date property is unavailable because this is ties to the under lying table in the database and doesn't appear to be property that can be managed after the service was published or created.

Re: Setting the date field to today sets the date without user interaction - Status changed to: Implemented

DougMorgenthaler — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:51:57 GMT

This is available in our March 2022 release of Field Maps.