Changing the Format of Date Tabs

Date Tabs allow recipients to enter a date such as their date of birth using a calendar picker. By default the Date tab requires the user to enter data in the format of MM/DD/YYYY. If you would prefer to have users enter dates in a different format (e.g. DD/MM/YYYY) DocuSign recommends using a validation pattern and a validation message to enforce the format (validation patterns use regular expressions for their syntax).

Support for Validation Patterns was added to fmESignature Link (DocuSign Edition) v1.51 - you can easily add this to an existing integration as it only requires two new fields and a small modification to the DocuSign - Create and Send Envelope script. To specify a date format of DD/MM/YYYY you would enter the following Validation Pattern for your Date tab when viewing the Tab options:

^(|by DocuSign)((|0)[1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|3[0-1])/((|0)[1-9]|1[0-2])/[0-9]{4}

It should look like this in the fmESignature Link file:

When a signer enters a date it will be stored in the DD/MM/YYYY format:

and downloaded with the same format when downloading the Form Data: