Date Picker Component
Camila Escobar · June 17, 2026
The Date Picker collects one calendar date from a calendar, so nobody has to guess whether you wanted 03/04 to mean March or April.
Use it for deadlines, start dates, birthdays, appointments — any single day.
Settings
Setting | Effect |
Label | The question shown above the field |
Minimum date | Earliest day that can be chosen |
Maximum date | Latest day that can be chosen |
Required | The form will not submit while no date is picked |
The minimum and maximum are the most under-used settings in the component. A birthday field with a maximum of today, or a booking field with a minimum of today, removes an entire class of wrong answers before anyone can give one.
Date, not date and time
A Date Picker collects a day, and a Date column stores that day exactly as given. It does not shift with time zones. The 1st of January is the 1st of January for a reader in Santiago and a reader in Madrid.
That is the behaviour you want for contracts, deadlines and birthdays, and it is why you should bind this component to a Date column rather than a Date & Time one.
Bind it to a Date & Time column instead and the value gets a time attached and is converted against your workspace's time zone — which is how a date that everyone typed as the 1st ends up displaying as the 31st for somebody. If your form is collecting days and your reports are off by one, this is almost always the cause.
Use Date & Time only when the moment genuinely matters — when the payment landed, when the ticket was raised.
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Date Range Component
Datatypes in Praxsuite
Changing a Column's Type
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