Default Value for Date

kethan_1last year

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  ieva.jaksaitytelast year

  maybe it had some restrictions before, you removed them in payload, but they are still applied inside dabatase (you could check independently from payload, via database itself)

  
  
  

  on the other hand, maybe "default value" would help you:

  
  
  

   {
        name: 'orderDate',
        label: 'Užsakymo data',
        type: 'date',
        required: true,
        defaultValue: new Date().toLocaleString('lt'),
        admin: {
            position: 'sidebar',
            date: {
                displayFormat: 'yyyy-MM-dd',
            }
        }
  },

  
  
  

  i'm using it to get current date, but maybe something different could be applied with

  defaultValue

  field

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  kethan_1last year

  Some date fields do appear as

  NULL

  in the database:

  
  
  

  I believe payload changes

  NULL

  date fields to 0 UTC (1969-12-31) whenever it encounters them, necessitating that the user presses the

  X

  button to revert the field back to NULL.

  
  
  

  Setting defaultValue to

  undefined

  didn't change anything sadly.

  
  
  

  When using

  date.overrides

  to pass the

  selected

  prop as null directly to react-datepicker as such (mentioned here:

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/date#display-format-and-picker-appearance

  ):

  
  

  {
    name: "applicationOpens",
    type: "date",
    required: false,
    admin: {
      description: "When the application opens",
      placeholder: "Select a date",
      date: {
        overrides: {
          selected: null,
        }
      },
    },
  },

  
  

  The field does appear empty (shown in the attached image).

  
  
  

  Given that the database correctly stores the date as null, and it is not the underlying date picker library (react-datepicker) that is changing the date when encountering null, I believe it must be Payload changing something.

  
  
  

  Just doing some digging around in the Payload codebase. I might be completely off the mark here, just throwing some thoughts out.

  
  
  

  I don't believe it's this file:

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/packages/ui/src/elements/DatePicker/DatePicker.tsx
  

  as it only executes

  value && new Date(value),

  , which should evaluate to

  null

  if value is

  null
  
  

  And I don't think it's this file either:

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/packages/ui/src/fields/DateTime/index.tsx
  

  as it just gets the value form useField

  
  
  

  maybe

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/packages/ui/src/forms/useField/index.tsx

  ?

  
  
  

  Not too sure what fixed it but this issue seems to be resolved in the latest Payload release.