Form Conditional Logic Dates

In this guide we will learn how to use the Date and Time form fields with conditional logic to make anything conditional based on dates and time.

Date-Based Logic

Date-based logic supports static dates, relative dates, days the week, and wildcards. This is done using four comparison operators: is, is not, greater than, and less than. Multiple rules can be combined to match date ranges or exclude specific dates from the match.

Static Dates

To compare a Date field to a static date, select the Date field, choose a comparison operator, and enter the static date to compare against.

Display field if current date is greater than April 20, 2021:

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Date values must be entered using the US date format: MM/DD/YYYY.

Relative Dates

There’s two ways that relative dates are supported in Conditional Logic Dates:

Comparing a user-inputted date to a relative date.
Comparing the current date to a static or relative date.

1. User Input

Comparing user input to relative dates is done using the conditional-logic-only merge tag {today}. It allows conditional logic to be applied to fields based on whether the selected date is, is not, is greater than or is less than the current date.

Display field if selected date is today:

The {today} merge tag supports modifiers for making date comparisons like:

Date is at least 2 weeks away: {today:+2 weeks}
Date is no more than 90 days before today: {today:-90 days}

2. Current Date

To compare the current date to a static or relative date, follow these steps:

Add a Date field to your form (it will default to the Datepicker date type).
Name it something like “Today”.
Open the field settings for this field and navigate to the Advanced tab.
Set {date_mdy} as the default value (this will automatically populate the current date into this field).
Now you can enable conditional logic on any other field and configure date-based conditions by comparing this field to a date value (see examples above).

If you want to hide the “Today” date field from being visible to the user, you can hide it by adding hide to the field’s CSS Class Name setting on the Appearance tab.

Days of the Week

Use the following conditional-logic-only merge tags to check for a specific day of the week:

{monday}
{tuesday}
{wednesday}
{thursday}
{friday}
{saturday}
{sunday}

These are used in the same manner as the {today} merge tag.

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Weekend or Weekday

Using the days of the week merge tags, you can apply conditional logic based on whether the date falls on a weekend or weekday.

First, we’ll tackle checking for weekend dates.

Open the field settings for the field that should be shown/hidden based on the day of the week and navigate to the Conditional Logic tab.
Enable Conditional Logic.
Select Any from the drop down that contains the options Any and All.
Select your Date field from the first drop down.
Select is from the second drop down.
Enter {saturday} in the third input.
Add a new rule by clicking the (+) button at the end of the row and follow steps 4 and 5 again.
Enter {sunday} for the third input on the new condition.