As a follow up to my last post:I got it to display beautifully, but the question doesn’t seem to be storing the date value after completing the survey. I’m not sure if somehow it has to do with using the Simple Layout option for a Theme or what… I even commented out some stuff in case that was the reason, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference in whether it gets stored or not.I even tried to store it as embedded data prior to submitting the survey and that didn’t make a difference either.I don’t know how else to troubleshoot the data value not getting saved/stored with the survey response…. Please send help.

Combo answer:This from @Tom_1842Hi@courtrc, so I found a hint on this page about setting Embedded Data and the below is working for me to store Flatpickr selections with Simple Layout. First, the hint:setJSEmbeddedData(key, value)Sets embedded data on the page. Only embedded data fields in the namespace _js can be set by this method.The full process:Add the below to the Survey's Header:<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/flatpickr/4.2.3/flatpickr.css"><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/flatpickr/4.2.3/themes/dark.css"><script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script><script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/flatpickr/4.2.3/flatpickr.js"></script>Next, create a Text Entry question and add the below to the question's JavaScript in the OnReady section:jQuery("#question-"+this.questionId+" .text-input").flatpickr({ dateFormat: "Y-m-d",onChange: function(selectedDates, dateStr, instance) {Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setJSEmbeddedData("date1",dateStr);}});Finally, in the Survey Flow, add the following Embedded Data field at the top of the Survey Flow:__js_date1The Flatpickr selection will be saved to the "__js_date1" Embedded Data field, even though it being set to “date1” in the JavaScript.Plus this hack if your date field is required:Well I think I came up with a hack to get it to work.Since the question is required, some value needs to be stored. So I set the question to have a default value of today’s date, so it stores that into the question to pass the requirement, but then stores the FlatPickr value into the embedded data because that’s the value I care about.When testing the field, the default value doesn’t actually display in the field, so the user doesn’t necessarily see that the question is storing today’s date. Which is inconsequential.

@courtrc& @Tom_1842- all fixed😃

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