So I have a simple form that saves data to a Retool DB. The form contains two "Date Time" and "Date" fields, nothening to fancy. Only one "Date Time" field is required, the other fields are optional. The fields don't have a default value, and use the default formatting. The two "Date Time" fields ha…

Welcome to the forum @Jeff76 I have to dodge this particular pothole quite often. You have to send a null back to the database if the date or time components are not populated. This is the easiest way: [image] I did not give the job_date the same treatment as start_time and end_time as it is a …

Problem saving empty date fields to Retool DB

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Problem saving empty date fields to Retool DB

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