# Form View, set default date to today

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/form-view-set-default-date-to-today/5126>\
**Category:** Misc\
**Created:** [September 11, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/form-view-set-default-date-to-today/5126 "2023-09-11T16:22:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![luke\_Irvine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/luke_irvine/32/4428_2.png) [@luke\_Irvine](https://community.fibery.io/u/luke_Irvine)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/form-view-set-default-date-to-today/5126/1 "2023-09-11T16:22:11Z")

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I would like to be able to use a form that people can fill in to clock their hours manually.  
i would like the date/time field to automatically be set to today and a specific time like 8am for start of day and 6pm for end of day. the user then can modify from there when filling in.

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/form-view-set-default-date-to-today/5126/2 "2023-09-11T16:38:23Z")

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Unfortunately, form view does not currently support dynamic default values, sorry ☹

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/form-view-set-default-date-to-today/5126/3 "2023-09-11T18:13:19Z")

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You would need to add text or number fields where the user could define the start and end times, and a script to convert those to proper DateTime field(s). Pretty kludgy though.

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**Author:** ![dmandan5](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/dmandan5/32/12510_2.png) [@dmandan5](https://community.fibery.io/u/dmandan5)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/form-view-set-default-date-to-today/5126/4 "2026-07-28T11:41:31Z")

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Hi @Chr1sG any chance dynamic default values can be supported either in forms or even just in fields? It would be nice to be able to set a date field to TODAY for example.

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/form-view-set-default-date-to-today/5126/5 "2026-07-28T11:54:08Z")

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Dynamic default values is a feature in our backlog, and your interest is noted/linked to the feature request