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Hi all,

I was reviewing this post and video, however it seems for me the Qualtrics library date questions provided no longer work, and does not allow you to constrain the dates, even when editing the JS.

A developer on my team confirmed there seems to be something wrong with the Javascript. Is anyone else having this issue? 

I am using simple layout.

@TomG do you have any ideas?


@TomG do you have any ideas?

It is not that surprising that it doesn’t work with Simple layout.  Actually, I never recommend using the Qualtrics library date questions regardless of layout - the JS is dated and clunky.

Two alternatives:

  1. flatpickr
  2. html5 <input type="date">

@TomG do you have any ideas?

It is not that surprising that it doesn’t work with Simple layout.  Actually, I never recommend using the Qualtrics library date questions regardless of layout - the JS is dated and clunky.

Two alternatives:

  1. flatpickr
  2. html5 <input type="date">

Thank you! I will try these approaches. My development team and I found the JS in the Library to be broken anyways. It is frustrating that this is the recommended approach in videos/documentation from Qualtrics when it does not work.


Hello @c.rose -- Thank you for your post, and apologies for the delay in replying on this thread!

I asked around about this topic for you, and was able to find out the following:

“Some HTML and JS doesn't work with simple layout. While from a default state it works pretty well, when trying to alter the HTML with simple layout it can break. This is something our product team would need to investigate.”

If you have not done so already, be sure to submit any and all product feedback via the “Ideas” tab here on the XM Community.

I will also add a comment on the 2-Minute Tip video you linked to to alert folks to this thread. 

Thank you again for your post, and apologies for any confusion or frustration caused. 


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