Date field
Posted: March 7th, 2018, 9:20 am
Hi folks,
That´s my first time I´m working with this kind of field, and I have some doubts and comments.
1. The field can have 8, 6 or 4 digits, good enough. I was assuming that the 4 digit field would be to accept the year, as in YYYY, but there is no such a format. Why not?
2. If there is no provision to capture only the year I would assume that a 2 digit variable might do the trick, using a format like YY, or if one needs the month or the day, it might accept also the MM or DD formats.
3. When showing the field to enter the value, it is not straightforward the option to enter the number directly, one need to touch the field for the numeric keypad to be shown.
4. My great concern is when dealing with information not known, like the interviewer does not know the day (or the month). I did not see a way to enter 99 (for the day or month), or 9999 for the year, or even leaving them blank (notappl). I tried to clean the pad using the x key, or key 0 or 00 for the day, but the system does not allow it. Same thing for the month, it only accepts the 12 possibilities. Is there a way to enter something invalid to flag a not known answer?
Best
Ari
That´s my first time I´m working with this kind of field, and I have some doubts and comments.
1. The field can have 8, 6 or 4 digits, good enough. I was assuming that the 4 digit field would be to accept the year, as in YYYY, but there is no such a format. Why not?
2. If there is no provision to capture only the year I would assume that a 2 digit variable might do the trick, using a format like YY, or if one needs the month or the day, it might accept also the MM or DD formats.
3. When showing the field to enter the value, it is not straightforward the option to enter the number directly, one need to touch the field for the numeric keypad to be shown.
4. My great concern is when dealing with information not known, like the interviewer does not know the day (or the month). I did not see a way to enter 99 (for the day or month), or 9999 for the year, or even leaving them blank (notappl). I tried to clean the pad using the x key, or key 0 or 00 for the day, but the system does not allow it. Same thing for the month, it only accepts the 12 possibilities. Is there a way to enter something invalid to flag a not known answer?
Best
Ari