Setting a default date value in form builder

[Simon Berry]

In form builder I'm attempting to set a default date value of 1-Jan-2010 for a date field.

I've tried the following in the 'Default Data Value' field:

1. 2010-01-01 does not give an error when building the form but doesn't work. I'm presented with today's date as the value to edit and not 2010-01-01
2. date('2010-01-01') give the error: Invalid cast of data [date(2010-01-01)] to type Date in form Retailer details (new) in module "Retailers"
3. date(2010-01-01) gives the same Invalid cast error as above

I've just checked Confluence and that tells me that functions aren't supported so I guess that's why item 2 and 3 give errors.

Help!

Simon

[Clayton Sims]

Simon,

Setting the value to the latter two elements would require using the "Default Value" field, rather than the "Default Data Value" field. I'm very surprised to hear that setting the Default Data Value to 2010-01-01 is not working, can you submit a bug from that form in CommCareHQ so we can take a look?

As a workaround, you can try using "Default Value" and one of the latter two expressions to see if that works.

-Clayton

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[Simon Berry]

Thanks. I have submitted a report from CommCareHQ as you suggest.

Regards

Simon

29/12/15

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