https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/generating-standard-dates-putting-them-in-custom-fields Gravity Support Forums Topic: Generating standard dates, putting them in custom fields en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:34:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/generating-standard-dates-putting-them-in-custom-fields#post-32995 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:04:22 +0000 Chris Hajer 32995@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Can you link to the theme you're using that uses this custom field? We will need to know what format the date needs to be stored in. We can display it in a user-friendly format, but the format it's stored in is going to be important. </p> <p>Once we know the exact date format, what we can do is create a set of radio buttons or a drop down, showing the 3 time frames available, starting with 7 days from today, then 14 days, then 21 days. </p> <p>I think that will do it. It will be a customization using the <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_render" rel="nofollow">gform_pre_render</a> hook to populate your drop down or radio buttons. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/generating-standard-dates-putting-them-in-custom-fields#post-32985 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:00:18 +0000 braindouche 32985@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ok, thanks! But that doesn't help me generate the data, I must not have been clear. </p> <p>Today is August 18th. Form filler-outer selects "1 week", and submits the form. I want my custom field to be populated with the datecode for August 25th. Tomorrow, another person selects 3 weeks, I want the custom field to be populated with September 9th. </p> <p>That's where I'm running into trouble. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/generating-standard-dates-putting-them-in-custom-fields#post-32983 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:55:05 +0000 Carl Hancock 32983@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Use the Post Custom Field and set it's field type to Date Field. Then configure custom field name to featureDates by selecting it in available custom field names or choosing new and typing in featureDates as the name. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/generating-standard-dates-putting-them-in-custom-fields#post-32982 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:53:21 +0000 braindouche 32982@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I need help with dates. (Yeah yeah, I know a girl posting that online is asking for trouble. Shaddup.)</p> <p>I have a form where, if you like, you can pay a fee and submit a post and have it be featured for a period of time. You purchase by the week, and can purchase up to three weeks, all starting the day of your purchase. To make the posts show up, I have a theme that will show "featured posts" that only have custom field featureDates equal to or greater than the current date. My problem is that I can't figure out how to get the feature date value into the custom field from the form. </p> <p>Any suggestions? </p>