Date

Collect a date from a calendar, choose how it is written, disable past days or weekdays, and bound it to a range or a set of allowed dates.

The Date block asks for one date and hands the respondent a calendar to pick it from. It stores the answer in a single shape whatever the respondent's keyboard or locale, and its settings let you say which days may be chosen at all: nothing in the past, no weekends, only the next two weeks, only the dates you list. A booking form, an availability question or a deadline field is built on it.

A published date question with its calendar open on the day picked

Insert a Date block

Open the insert menu with / and choose Date. On the published page the box reads "Select date" and opens a calendar on click. For a time of day there is a separate Time block.

Date chosen from the slash menu, and the question it inserts drawn on the canvas

Give it a question above the box, or click into the box and type a placeholder of your own.

Date settings

Open the settings from the handle at the block's left edge.

Add a default answer

Default answer opens the form with a date already in the box. Pick one from the calendar, or choose Today under Date utilities so the box always opens on the day the respondent arrives. The menu also offers hidden fields and other fields, for a date that travels in on the link. See Pre-populate form fields.

Default answer switched on in the block's settings, with Today taken from Date utilities

Change format

Format decides how the date is written in the box once chosen. Full date is the default; the others are:

Month/Day/Year
Day/Month/Year
Year/Month/Day
Day.Month.Year
Year-Month-Day

The format changes what the respondent sees in the box; the stored answer stays the same whichever you pick.

Start week on sits further down the panel and sets the calendar's first column, Monday by default.

Start week on changed in the block's settings, which moves the calendar's first column

Enable or disable specific dates

Two groups of settings narrow what the calendar offers.

Disable days greys out whole classes of day: In the past, In the future, and any weekday from Mondays to Sundays. Turn on Saturdays and Sundays and the calendar takes weekdays only.

Below it, one bound at a time:

After date refuses everything before the day you pick
Before date refuses everything after it
Date range accepts a start and an end and nothing outside them
Specific dates accepts only the days you tick on the calendar

Picking a day under one of these replaces whichever bound was set before, so a block never carries two bounds that disagree. A respondent who types a date outside the bound sees "Date should be minimum", "Date should be maximum" or "Date should be between" with the limits, when they press Next or Submit.

A published calendar with every Friday greyed out, refused by the block's own day rule

View dates

Each answer appears in the form's Submissions tab and in the CSV export. A rule can read a Date answer too, with Is before and Is after. See Conditional logic.