Creating a field with the types "date" and "date-time"
Create in settings
- Go to profile settings - "Custom fields".
- Click the Add New Field .
- Enter the field name.
- Select the field type "date" or "date-time".
🚩 Once created, you cannot change the field type or delete it. You can hide it by archiving fields.
Creating a field in the bot editor
In the Action block, in the Custom Fields list, you can create a field of any type.
Date and time format
The date is written in the format dd.mm.yyyy. For example, 01/27/2023.
Date and time are written in the format dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm. For example, 01/27/2023 12:58.
Time in the fields works according to the office time zone.
Fields work with all BotHelp integrations.
Setting values in the "date" and "date-time" fields
In the Action block, you can set the field to the current date, write the value of another field, or specify the date manually.
Compliance with the conditions
It works in the "Condition" block. You can compare the field value with the current date or with the date and time.
Increase and decrease the date and date-time fields
In the "Actions with fields and variables" block, you can increase or decrease the value of a field of the "date" and "date-time" types.
Minutes are first added to the variable, then hours, days and months.
Months are added to a date according to the standard for working with dates. In BotHelp, months are added in the same way as adding a month in Excel. When adding a month to a date at the end of January, the new date will fall in March, because there is no February 30 or 31.
Here's how adding one month affects the date at the end of January:
Recording the date in the "Question" block
If you need to find out the date of entry or date of birth, you can do this in the "Question" block.
You can add options as buttons or accept responses as text.
mandatory validation works , which only allows a response in the form of a date.
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