idea Add ability to control date appearance in Survey123 in ArcGIS Survey123 Ideas

Add ability to control date appearance in Survey123

BrentKinal1 — Wed, 16 May 2018 13:38:19 GMT

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.

Re: Add ability to control date appearance in Survey123

ScottPrindle — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:18:33 GMT

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

Re: Add ability to control date appearance in Survey123

RachelS — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:35:35 GMT

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

Re: Add ability to control date appearance in Survey123

MelodeeBassett — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 19:01:39 GMT

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!

Re: Add ability to control date appearance in Survey123

BenSmith6 — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:05:37 GMT

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

Re: Add ability to control date appearance in Survey123

TylerGraham2 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:37:29 GMT

This needs serious consideration; it is also a problem when creating surveys using grids on tablets and laptops too. Designing a survey that is space efficient really hits barriers when you need to have enough space for around 25 characters to spell out a date when you can get by with 10 - 11 characters using a mm/dd/yyyy or a dd mmm yyyy format.