Hi Guys,
I want to ask a question that requires a date as an answer.
How do I use the Ask Question Action to allow this. How do I call the keyboard for date entry and can I mask it to prevent issues.
Thanks
Craig
You would want to use [?Prompt] function rather than an ask question action. It allows for input mask and customisation of keypad to say numberpad rather than full keyboard.
Sorry to be a pain ive never used that before can you please just point me in the right direction how I use it please.
A basic example can be seen on my ‘Temp Tab’ tutorial video. Although I only used the standard keyboard as needed alphabet.
Uses: Ticket Tags, Report Expressions, Ticket List, Ask Question
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Q did a good tutorial on the expressions and custom keyboard codes;
As of v4.1.61 we can create Custom Keyboards to use with [?prompt] notation, and a Custom Keyboard Widget is available for Entity Screens.
For [?prompt] notation, the syntax is:
[?<prompt>;<mask>;<default value>;<flags>;<keycodes>]
<prompt> is the question or prompt to display
<mask> is a regular expression to define what type of characters (and how many) are allowed
<default value> allows for a common value to be pre-entered
<flags> lets you define the keyboard type and which buttons …
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