Partial date display in formatted collecting event form

[sorosoro]

Hi,
Partial dates are working well in the workbench and in the data entry forms, and also they are correctly exported, but they display as full (wrong) dates in the formatted collecting event form:

I modified the collecting event format in the record formatters app resource by selecting PartialDate from the options, but the partial date is still displayed a full date:

In the field formatters app resource the date elements look like this:

Is the first line in the pix right? The partialdate=“Full” for the PartialDate element looks weird.

So, in short, is it possible to display partial dates as partial dates in the formatted collecting event form?

Cheers,
Soraya

[Grant]

Hi Soraya,

At this time, the date fields do not respond to the precision that they are set to. I’ve added your report to our GitHub issue tracking this request:

Allow choosing partial date or full date in the formatter editor

Thank you for your illustrative screenshots and clear explanation of the issue! This will help our developers better understand the issue.

[nfshoobs]

Soraya,
We also noticed this bug recently and also want it fixed!

[HeatherC]

Likewise, we have a LOT of partial dates, and the import/export of these and subsequent display/exports have not been ideal. Hoping for this to be more accurate in the future!

[nfshoobs]

@HeatherC Yes, exporting is a separate but related and disappointing issue. Exporting as a .csv for reference requests since we switched has been really frustrating, because I know that if the requestor/user opens the .csv in Excel, all of the partial dates will be converted to full dates and become incorrect. While some of these users might be savvy enough to download a .csv reader like ModernCSV, most are not and will open .csv with the default program on their computer (probably Excel), which will likely mangle the partial dates.