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

[BenWalker1]

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. 

[RobertKacir]

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

[SteveOwens]

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.

[BenWalker1]

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. 

[JonathanMcDougall]

@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.

[ReinhardtBotha]

This would be a great feature to have.

[TylerBragg2]

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.  

[BrittanyBurson]

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

[HillarySherrill]

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

[nspittlemeister_LCFPD]

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