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Question

Can Zapier table add date when a new row is created?

  • June 17, 2024
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Hi,

Currently, when a type form application comes in, I have a date field in zapier table which pulls the data. 

However, for some reason it looks like zapier table is not pulling the date in our desired format which is dd/mm/yyyy. It is sometimes getting swapped as mm/dd/yyyy.

So thought to use a functionality that you could help, to add the current date to the date field when row is created, instead of pulling from Typeform application.
 

Is this possible?

 

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SamB
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  • SamBCommunity Manager
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  • June 18, 2024

Hi there @Sooraj Rajaramadas 👋

This very much seems like it’s a bug so I’d recommend reaching out to our Support team to have this investigated further and so that they can open up a bug report for this. 
 

So thought to use a functionality that you could help, to add the current date to the date field when row is created, instead of pulling from Typeform application.

Yes, you’re correct! I did some testing and changed a Date & Time field that had been set a format of DD/MM/YYY to be Text field and it converted the dates to the following:
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Which indicates that’s the default format that Date & Time fields expect to receive a data value in. So, changed it back to be a Date & Time type of field, and used a Formatter (Date / Time > Format) action in a Zap to convert a date value from DD/MM/YYYY into the date format it defaults to (YYYY-MM-DD). See our Modify date and time formats in Zaps to learn more about how to do that.

Then I selected the date that’s output by the Formatter in the action that added a new record in Zapier Tables and it correctly added the date as 02/03/2024 instead of swapping it around to be 03/02/2024:
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Can you give that Formatter action a try and let me know if that fixes things for the date field in your table as well?

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