topic Formatting Date Field in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Formatting Date Field

BrentKinal1 — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:32:32 GMT

In my forms I can only get the date field to display in the current format Day of week, Month DD YYYY (e.g. Friday, February 16, 2018), unfortunately there is not enough screen real estate to accommodate a string this long on most smartphones. is it possible to have a date in a short format (mm/dd/yyyy) such as in a date/time question?

Ismael Chivite's blog https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2016/04/17/dates-and-time-in-survey123-for-arcgis shows a date displayed as Month DD, YYYY.

How would one get this date format?

Thanks!

Re: Formatting Date Field

JohnathanHasthorpe — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:23:42 GMT

Hi Brent

How the date is displayed/formatted in a date question depends on the local settings of the device, you can't control it in the survey. This also varies from device to device - Ismael is showing an IPhone in his image.

Thanks

John

Re: Formatting Date Field

BrentKinal1 — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:34:17 GMT

Thanks John, Not the answer I was hoping for. I'll submit and "Idea" to enhance date formatting.

Cheers,

Brent

Re: Formatting Date Field

Caitlin-platt — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:46:13 GMT

Hi @JohnathanHasthorpe has this idea been addressed?