Ask: date

The ask date node helps to elicit date input since dates are a special entity that needs careful validation and can be bound to various constraints, like dates that need to be in the future, or only in the past, etc. For this reason date is a special node variant you can add to your flow when acquiring a date.

The date node will behave differently on different channels. On Web, when hide input is enabled, it will offer a date picker.

On phone it will use the numeric input (dtmf) to elicit the date when the node is configured with a dtmf input format option.

And on when no dtmf format is provided, or no hide input is used on web, or any of the other channels the node will ask the date by using a question and open text input:

Because of all the above differences and constraints the node contains quite some different properties to configure. See below.

Date formatting options

The date format used in the fields "Input by dtmf" and "Output format" is composed out of the following elements:

Dialog triggers

Special events can trigger another flow or set of nodes in your existing flow using the so called Dialog Triggers. See the chapter Dialog triggers for more details.

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