Can anyone please tell me how I can enable a past date to be entered into the date field?

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March 29, 2017
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I am working on an editable form and need to have users be able to enter dates that happened in the past, but the date field keeps defaulting to today's date. I have been searching the internet for the answer, but all I am able to find is how to "disable" past dates! Any help with this is much appreciated.

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try67

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I don't understand... Do you want to allow the users to select past dates, or not allow it?
At any rate, this has nothing to do with the date picker. You would need to use a custom validation script to do it. You can't limit the date picker widget to only show specific dates, as far as I know.

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Anonymous

I'm sorry, I don't understand the confusion. I need users to be able to enter in a date that occurred in the past. When I went through the process to test the document, I entered a date from the past and it was replaced with today's date. I do not want this to happen. I should clarify that I am using Acrobat Adobe Pro and inserting the fields into a document. I am not using a widget. I figured that there may need to be a validation script added to the date field, but this seems like a lot of work to go through to get the form to do what I want it to do.

try67

Community Expert

Did you apply any validation code to your field? Can you share the file in question?

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