Hello, again.
I realized that the error in this post Show / Hide an element if the Selected Date is before Start of the Day is that what I created as text is not recognized as a calendar date by Adalo, so I can’t put a condition in the context of time.
Does anyone have any idea how I can create a dd / mm / yyyy date from the action of a button that is recognized by the Adalo as a date, exactly like a date from the Date Picker?
Thank you!
Hey,
How are you currently offering the date to the user? Does it come from a collection?
Thank you for your reply @JL_LJ
The date must be generated by button action and updated to 2 collections (users and events).
Now the data value is blank and I try to avoid the Date Picker as I can’t avoid past time selection or weekends days.
So, I try to build a custom calendar, with an action per day / per button.
Hi again @JL_LJ
I don’t know if it was clear.
I have created this calendar
and I want to have actions that creates a date only on some of them.
That date will be updated to a collection.
Thank you.
Hi @ionutilie ,
This is cool. 
From my quick test it didn’t work internally trying to create a record.
It did however seem to work fine when using the external API. Which means you could have a custom action to update the record from the Adalo API. A bit of a workaround, and you need to have the element ID (another issue), but it’s there as an option.
In fact you might not need element ID, it also returns it in the custom action response if you create a new record.
Custom action → create datetime record
Update current event > new datetime - datetime
Hope that makes sense?
Thank you very much @theadaloguy . 
I will close the ticket now since according to your test this is the limit / possibility now.
Have a nice day!
Thank you!
Yes, I understand it!
Thank you!
I can’t be 100% sure but I had the same issue as you, it just isn’t accepting the format we can use internally.
It seemed we can’t insert the colon required into the field : : internally, but externally we don’t have that restriction.
Thank you @theadaloguy
It took me a long time to find the error and now a workaround.
In the end it’s ok.
Adalo can also bring challenges, but if they are overcome, something beautiful can come out …
Did you find a workaround? If not PM me, might have a solution. Once tested I can post for everyone in the forum. Just don’t want to spam now with a lot of questions.
Hello again @theadaloguy and @JL_LJ.
Thank so much for your support!
I just discovered that if an input form is used as a number with the value 18809 it will be converted directly to 7/1/2021, which would be recognized by Adalo as the calendar date.
From 18809 (7/1/2021) it is calculated which date is desired.
Thank you.
Hi,
Yes, exactly, and the other way also, if you save dates as number, you can always compare “equal”, “smaller” and so on 
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You can always converte dates to number to compare and then convert to date to save in DB .
