Date and time
The date and time field editors have four distinct flavours, providing the flexibility to capture the data you require.
Type | Summary |
Date |
A single date picker |
Date and time |
A date and time picker |
Date range |
Two date pickers to provide a range |
Date and time range |
Two date and time pickers to provide a range |
The date range editors become available when the format of a Date / Time field are set to range.
Note: Contensis does not support time without a date as we store date and times as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). While there may be some use cases for time on its own we recommend you use a text field with a regular expression for validation.
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Settings
Setting name | Summary |
Name |
A text label to identify the field in an entry. |
Field ID |
A sanitised name to be used by the API. |
Read only |
Prevents authors from editing the field in the entry editor. |
Repeatable |
Allows an author to create a collection of content of the same type. |
Supported validation
This field editor supports the following validation methods.
Properties
Common properties
Property name | Summary |
Placeholder text |
The placeholder property provides a short hint describing the expected value of a field. |
Content guidelines |
Provides guidance to an author for the expected content the field should contain. |
Past dates
This property sets if you want an author to be able to select a dates in the past e.g. a date less than today. This is enabled by default.
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