How do I pipe a date into my survey? (Power Surveys)

This script will pipe in a date either from another date question or the current date in the text of any question in your survey.

Detailed Steps

1. Find and copy the appropriate script from below.
   • If you want to show the current date when participants see the question, look at scripts in the Today's date column.
   • If you want to pipe in a date from a date question, look at scripts in the From a date question column
2. Select the question in the Questionnaire Tree.
3. Paste the script into the question text or answer text.
4. If you want to pipe in a date from a date question, change Q_DATE to the name of the date question in your study.
5. Click Save.
6. Validate and test your survey.

Scripts to place in date from another Date question

Example date format	From a date question
13/06/2016	[%(Q_DATE.DateTimeValue.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture))%]
2016-06-13	[%(Q_DATE.DateTimeValue.ToShortDateString())%]
06-13-2016	[%(Q_DATE.DateTimeValue.ToString("MM-dd-yyyy"))%]
Jun 13,2016	[%(Q_DATE.DateTimeValue.ToString("MMM dd, yyyy"))%]
June 13,2016	[%(Q_DATE.DateTimeValue.ToString("MMMM dd, yyyy"))%]
Monday 13 June, 2016	[%(Q_DATE.DateTimeValue.ToString("dddd dd MMMM, yyyy"))%]

Scripts to place in Today's Date

Example date format	Today's date
13/06/2016	[%(DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture))%]
2016-06-13	[%(DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString())%]
06-13-2016	[%(DateTime.Now.ToString("MM-dd-yyyy"))%]
Jun 13,2016	[%(DateTime.Now.ToString("MMM dd, yyyy"))%]
June 13,2016	[%(DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM dd, yyyy"))%]
Monday 13 June, 2016	[%(DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd dd MMMM, yyyy"))%]

More Information

Read this article to learn more about date questions.