I am building a registration form which will be used mostly with smartphones. One of the field people will have to fill in is the birth date. While testing I realized if I just simply give a Date column type to a form, on mobile the only “jump” I can make is monthly. So to select 13 January 1985 it would take cc 10 minutes to click on the arrow more than 400 times.
You can test it with your mobile phone:
Link to the page:
Am I doing something wrong or this feature is really missing from Coda?
Any tip or trick for a work around?
I understand I can give 3 select lists with the years, months and dates. But it seems very 20th century solution… I’d like to believe there is a faster solution?
I did the workaround (same links) and now the problem is that on Android I can not scroll the select list… At least now the key board pops up but I cannot slide to reach the days and months and years which is placed lower. I would think this is so basic.
Or is it something I do wrong?
I stand corrected. When I click to the select list it zooms in and then when I scroll it is for the whole page scrolling. When I zoom out then I can scroll the select list. This is still very confusing.
I agree that his is problematic.
Since I don’t know whether people will fill my forms on a computer (still a majority for my forms), I have a 2nd field where they can fill their birthday in a text field. When the form is submitted I have an automation check if this field holds a value that looks like a date. If yes, it puts this date in the birthday field.
I have considered using only a text field (on the form), but since close to 100% of the form have a valid value in one of these fields, I haven’t put any more effort into this (but it is on my todo list).
