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alphatango22
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August 10, 2023
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Choose current and future dates only

  • August 10, 2023
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Hello everyone, I'm very new to fillable forms and I hope you can help. I've been researching about this for awhile now to no avail. Please help 😅

 

I have a text field property that's formatted to Date. What I want to do is for the user to be able to choose present and future dates only when they click on it. Is that possible at all and can you share some workaround or there's really no solution for that? 

 

Most grateful for your responses. Thank you.

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    Correct answer Nesa Nurani

    You can try something like this as 'Validate' script of date field:

    if(event.value){
 var currentDate = new Date();
 var enteredDate = util.scand("mm/dd/yyyy", event.value);

 currentDate.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
 enteredDate.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);

 if(enteredDate < currentDate){
  app.alert("Please enter a current or future date.");
  event.value = "";}}

    If the user doesn't enter a current or future date, it will pop alert and clear the field.

     

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    Nesa Nurani
    Community Expert
    Nesa NuraniCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    August 10, 2023

    You can try something like this as 'Validate' script of date field:

    if(event.value){
 var currentDate = new Date();
 var enteredDate = util.scand("mm/dd/yyyy", event.value);

 currentDate.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
 enteredDate.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);

 if(enteredDate < currentDate){
  app.alert("Please enter a current or future date.");
  event.value = "";}}

    If the user doesn't enter a current or future date, it will pop alert and clear the field.

     

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      alphatango22Author
      Participant
      August 10, 2023

      OMG THANK YOU! It worked perfectly. I'm so grateful. Thank you so much Nesa!!

      Amal.
      Amal.
      Legend
      August 10, 2023

      Hi there

      Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

      The workflow you are trying to achieve might be possible using JavaScript. For more information, please check the help pages listed below:
      https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/javascript_console/
      https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scripts-pdfs.html

      Hope it will help

      Regards
      Amal

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