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aftonw81795499
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June 12, 2018
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Inputting date options

  • June 12, 2018
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I want to give my customers the option of inputting mm/yyyy OR yyyy OR mm/dd/yyyy on the adobe pdf fillable form when I send it to them but am having trouble making this work.

Does anybody know how to do this?

THANKS!

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gkaiseril
Inspiring
June 13, 2018

The provided format options use some behind the scenes scripting for the keystroke (only allowing valid valid characters for the format), validation (the value entered is a valid date), and format (the correct display for the date format is used). Since you have very diverse and very different formats, I think you may only be able to perform the validation and formatting by using some very custom JavaScript.

This seems like a very unusual requirement.

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MatLac10492407
Inspiring
June 13, 2018

I would suggest the following

1. use a keystroke event to authorize only digits and the "/" character

2.  Test the length property (7, 4 or 10) to determine the format chosen by the user

3.  if the result is 7 or 10, Try to convert the string to a date Object to reject any value that is not a valid date

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