Form Building
Date & Time Fields
Learn how to use Formora’s date and time picker fields to easily collect temporal information like appointment dates, birthdates, or event times.
Capturing dates and times accurately is crucial for many applications, from scheduling appointments to recording events. Formora provides user-friendly date and time picker fields that simplify this process for your users.
This guide details Formora’s date and time input fields, their specific configuration options, and typical use cases.
For general properties applicable to most fields (like Label, Placeholder, Help Text, Required, Conditional Logic), please refer to the main Field Properties page.
Available Date & Time Input Fields
Date Picker (type: date)
Date Picker (type: date)
Allows users to select a specific day, month, and year using an interactive calendar interface. This prevents manual entry errors and ensures a consistent date format.Use Cases:
- Birthdates
- Appointment dates
- Project start or end dates
- Event dates
- Registration deadlines
- Date Format: Configure the display format (e.g., MM/DD/YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, Month D, YYYY). Formora may default to the user’s locale or allow explicit setting.
- Minimum Selectable Date: Prevent users from selecting dates before a certain point.
- Maximum Selectable Date: Prevent users from selecting dates after a certain point.
- Disable Specific Dates: Option to make certain individual dates or ranges unselectable (e.g., holidays).
- Disable Days of the Week: Prevent selection of certain days (e.g., weekends).
- Default Date: Pre-select a specific date (e.g., today, a custom date).
Example: Date Picker field for 'Appointment Date'
Time Picker (type: time)
Time Picker (type: time)
Enables users to select a specific time, often using dropdowns for hours and minutes, or a clock-like interface.Use Cases:
- Appointment times
- Event start or end times
- Preferred contact times
- Time-logging entries
- Time Format: Choose between 12-hour (AM/PM) and 24-hour format.
- Minute Step: Define the increments for minute selection (e.g., every 1, 5, 15, or 30 minutes).
- Minimum Selectable Time: Restrict selection to times after a certain hour/minute.
- Maximum Selectable Time: Restrict selection to times before a certain hour/minute.
- Default Time: Pre-select a specific time.
Example: Time Picker field for 'Preferred Contact Time'
Combined Date & Time: Depending on Formora’s implementation, you might find a dedicated “DateTime” field that combines both date and time selection into a single input, or the “Date” field might have an option to include time selection. If they are separate, you would use one Date field and one Time field in conjunction if you need both.
Common Properties for Date & Time Inputs
These fields also support standard properties such as:- Label: The title for the date/time selection.
- Help Text/Description: Additional instructions for the user.
- Required: Makes selecting a date/time mandatory.
- Read-Only: Displays a pre-set date/time that cannot be altered.
- Conditional Logic: Show or hide based on other form inputs.