Kuika's Date Time element allows users to easily select both date and time information in your application. Users can either manually enter the date and time or specify this information through a date and time picker. The Date Time element can be used especially in situations where you need to perform operations based on a specific time zone. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Date Time element and how to configure date-time validations.

The Date Time element supports web and mobile applications.

This training content consists of the following topics:

Adding a Date Time element,
Date Time element properties,
Authorization,
Visibility,
Editability,
Customize the interface design with Style Panel,
Actions.

Add Date Time Element

After logging in to the Kuika platform, open the project you will work on from the “Apps” screen.

In the “UI Design” (1) module, drag and drop the Date Time element (4) under the “Date and Time Input” (3) category from the “Elements” (2) panel on the left side.

You can add the Date Time element from the Elements panel by drag and drop. If you drag it to an empty space on the screen, it will be added with the Row element. If you drag it into a Column, you will only add a Date Time element.

Date Time Element Properties

In the Properties panel:

Value: You can give it a static value or you can make it take dynamic values with Symbol Picker.
Placeholder: When you ask the user to enter date and time information, you can add a predefined placeholder text (for example, “Select Date”) to the date field. Placeholder is displayed when the value of the Date Time element is null .
Allow Clear: Determines whether you allow the user to clear the date and time selection. When enabled, the user can remove the selected date or time.
Format: Determines how the date and time data is displayed. For example, Day/Month/Year Hour:Minute format. When the DateTime element is selected, the Format drop-down menu appears in the Properties panel. In the drop-down menu, there are YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss:, DD-MM-YYYY HH:mm:ss:, hh:mm:ss:, mm:ss:, HH:mm: options.some text
- YYYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss: Shows the date and time in year-month-day hours:minutes:seconds. For example, “2023-10-20 15:30:45” is the date and time.
- DD-MM-YYYY HH:mm:ss: The date is displayed as day-month-year hour:minute:second. For example, “20-10-2023 15:30:45” refers to the date and time.
- hh:mm:ss: Only hours:minutes:seconds are displayed, but the 12-hour clock format is used. For example, “03:30:45 PM” refers to 3:30:45 PM.
- mm:ss: Only minutes and seconds are displayed. For example, “15:45” refers to 15 minutes and 45 seconds.
- HH:mm: Only hours and minutes are displayed and 24-hour time format is used. For example, “15:30” refers to 15:30.
Disable Before Date: Prevents the user from selecting dates before a specific date. Usually used to set limitations for future dates.
Use 12 Hours: Specifies whether you want to use the time display in 12-hour format (AM/PM) or 24-hour format.
Hour Step: Specifies the interval at which hours or minutes are selected by the user. For example, it allows selection every half hour instead of every hour.
Minute Step: You can edit the minute step value. For example, consider a scenario where a vehicle delivery can only be made every 30 minutes.
Second Step: You can add a step value for seconds as well as hours and minutes.

Authorization.

You can customize user access with “Anonymous Access” and “All Roles Access” authorization options on the screens and elements of your application. While “Anonymous Access” enables access without any account information query, “All Roles Access” provides access by verifying user account information.

For element level authorization, you can manage the security and user experience of your application by selecting the relevant element and editing the “Authorization” settings from the Properties panel.

Visibility.

It allows you to adjust the visibility of screens or elements. Visibility in Elements allows you to regulate visibility based on a specific state or condition. For each element, you can make it always visible, hidden, or visible and hidden depending on a condition.

Click on the element on the screen.
Open the “Properties” panel on the right side.
Click on the “Visibility” field and make one of the following selections according to the needs of your application. Kuika offers Always Visible, Hidden, Sometimes Visible options to control the visibility of the screens in your application.

Always Visible: Ensures that the screens in your app are always visible. ‍
Hidden: Allows hiding screens in your application. ‍
Sometimes Visible: Makes screens in your application conditionally visible.

Editability

Allows you to make elements editable.

Enabled: Selecting this option makes the element editable.
Disabled: In this case, the element cannot be edited.
Sometimes Enabled: This option means that the element is sometimes editable and sometimes not, depending on certain conditions.

Customize the İnterface Design with Style Panel

By customizing your elements with the Styling Panel, you can create unique and impressive user interfaces in your web and mobile applications.

The sections defined below vary depending on the element.

Layout‍: Here you can make visual adjustments such as sizing, alignment and padding of elements. These settings also affect the layout of other elements within the element. Properties include Size, Min Size and Align; however, some elements may not support the Display property.
Text: The element's text properties can be edited here through font family, style, color, size, spacing and other options. This section supports all Text related adjustments.
Fill: You can use the Fill setting to customize the element's background with color or images.
Border: You can give your elements a more aesthetic look by adding borders and adjusting the corner radii.
Shadow: You can add a shadow effect to elements used in web applications to give a sense of depth. However, the shadow feature may not be supported as some elements are not suitable for mobile applications.

Actions.

Kuika contains system actions such as Arithmetic, Authorization, Condition, Device, Export, Geolocation, Invers, Local Storage, Multi Language, Navigation, Notification, Payment, UI Control, Process Administration, Process Automation, Trigger, Process Automation, Process Administration and String Operations.

In addition to system actions, you can also use SQL actions that you create yourself.

To add actions to elements, you can use the “+ADD ACTION” button from the Properties panel on the right side.