Support Article

Selected date displays incorrectly when using Date Picker

SA-102893

Summary

A chatbot is configured from Channel and Interfaces. A case is created in the chatbot and a Date input is selected from the chat. However, the selected date displays one day lesser in the Answer section.

For example:

If the selected date is, 14/02/2020, the date displays as 13/02/2020 in the Answer section.

This occurs on configuring the 'Allow text entry' as No in the Date configuration.

Error Messages

Not Applicable

Steps to Reproduce

Open the Test1 chatbot from Channels and Interfaces.
Select a date in the Chat preview.
Press Enter.

Root Cause

A defect in Pegasystems’ code or rules: Date control.

Resolution

Perform the following local-change:

Save As the pySubmitButton from the Embed-Channel-Control class to the 'Custom' ruleset.
Configure a 'Run data transform' as the first action. The data transform takes '.pyText' as the input in the Actions tab of the 'Send' button.
Create a new text property in 'SLAjyo' ruleset and the '.textOrig' custom ruleset.
In the data transform, copy the input parameter value to the '.textOrig' property.
As part of the third action in the Refresh-Other section, pass 'textOrig' for the pre-activty instead of 'pyText'.