Mandatory date field

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1

Dear Friends,

I would like to make date field mandatory on one of my ODK forms, expected
date could be the present date or a date from the past. Now the problem is
if the user does not make any changes to the date picker, still it picks
the current date. How do I ensure that, user paid attention to the date
picker, the current date doesn't mean that the user forgot to enter a date
value? There are some alternative ways; however, input should be date
value, not text or integer.

I believe there must be some solution, I know I can use a constraint for
past dates, but there is no way to ensure that current date doesn't mean
that it is a mistake of the data collector.

Thanks,
Imran

2

Hi Imran,

What I commonly do is to ask if they know they date before showing the
date question. You can also add a select one question after the date
question which is relevant if the selected date matches today. In that
question, I ask the user to confirm yes/no if they actually wanted to
select today's date.

Other approaches I've seen is break up the date into day, month, year
and use numbers/selects. Or set the default column in XLSForm to
something unreasonable (e.g., 1900-01-01) and require the user change
that date.

Yaw

··· On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 1:14 PM, A.N.M AL-IMRAN wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I would like to make date field mandatory on one of my ODK forms, expected > date could be the present date or a date from the past. Now the problem is > if the user does not make any changes to the date picker, still it picks the > current date. How do I ensure that, user paid attention to the date picker, > the current date doesn't mean that the user forgot to enter a date value? > There are some alternative ways; however, input should be date value, not > text or integer. > > I believe there must be some solution, I know I can use a constraint for > past dates, but there is no way to ensure that current date doesn't mean > that it is a mistake of the data collector. > > Thanks, > Imran > > -- > -- > Post: opendatakit@googlegroups.com > Unsubscribe: opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com > Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ODK Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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Dear Yaw,

Excellent! I found the 1st one more useful and I have applied it to my form.

Thanks once again,
Imran

A N M AL IMRAN (Imran)
Brossard, QC
Canada
Cell: +1 (438) 501 3576

··· On 3 February 2017 at 00:32, Yaw Anokwa wrote:

Hi Imran,

What I commonly do is to ask if they know they date before showing the
date question. You can also add a select one question after the date
question which is relevant if the selected date matches today. In that
question, I ask the user to confirm yes/no if they actually wanted to
select today's date.

Other approaches I've seen is break up the date into day, month, year
and use numbers/selects. Or set the default column in XLSForm to
something unreasonable (e.g., 1900-01-01) and require the user change
that date.

Yaw

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 1:14 PM, A.N.M AL-IMRAN imran3may@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Friends,

I would like to make date field mandatory on one of my ODK forms,
expected
date could be the present date or a date from the past. Now the problem
is
if the user does not make any changes to the date picker, still it picks
the
current date. How do I ensure that, user paid attention to the date
picker,
the current date doesn't mean that the user forgot to enter a date value?
There are some alternative ways; however, input should be date value, not
text or integer.

I believe there must be some solution, I know I can use a constraint for
past dates, but there is no way to ensure that current date doesn't mean
that it is a mistake of the data collector.

Thanks,
Imran

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