Hi,
Am I right that the date validation does not accept any relative dates? So if I were to ask a question “When do you want to go to the movies” my user would have to enter “11/15/16” as the only valid form of date?
It would be super useful for this to accept things like “today” “tomorrow” “Saturday” and so on.
You’re correct actually, but I agree it would be better to accept relative dates. In the meantime, you could accept anything then use the Date & Time > Format Date action.
We’re working in this area very soon and will be improving.
So if I accept anything, that’s fine, but I don’t think Format Date action can help tell whether it’s a relative date, right?
I’m eventually passing this over to our API via webhook, but before I do, it would be nice to know whether a date was actually provided by the user. Is the Format Date able to parse a “Friday” as 11/5/2016 or “Tomrorow” etc? Right now it seems to just error and then stop.
That should take human readable dates, such as “friday” and turn that into “11/5/2016”.
The docs link to a 404 page but that should be an online tool where you can see how a ‘relative’ date is handled (we use the date formatting code from the SugarJS library). Unfortunately they revamped the site and our links are broken 
If “friday” isn’t handled, does “next friday” work, I know for sure that should?
This will be prioritised as we need to make sure this is handled better.