Gravity Forms
+ Partial Dates

Plenty of form questions are about a date that has no day, or no year. When did you start your last job? Which year was the house built? When is your birthday, if we promise not to ask your age? The Gravity Forms Date field always wants a full date, so forms either ask for a day nobody remembers, or use a text box with an input mask that happily accepts 13/2026 and 31 April.

The Gravity Forms Partial Dates Premium Add-on adds a Partial Date field for exactly these answers: month and year, day and month, or year only. Visitors pick from drop-downs with month names in your language, or type into small number boxes. You decide which years can be chosen, counted from this year so the list never goes out of date, and whether only past or only future months are allowed. Every rule is checked again on your server, the value is saved in a form that sorts in date order, and each part is available in merge tags and calculations. The standard Date field gets a year range counted from this year and month names too.

The Partial Date field shows one drop-down or number box per part. While the visitor chooses, a small script keeps a hidden copy of the value in its saved form, such as 2026-04, so conditional logic and calculations react at once. When the form is sent, the add-on builds the value again from the parts on your server, ignoring the hidden copy, and checks it: every part present, the month from 1 to 12, the day real for the month, the year inside the range and, if you chose it, not later or not earlier than this month. Valid values are saved as 2026-04, --04-17 or 2026 and shown in the display format you chose. For the standard Date field the add-on uses Gravity Forms' own year range filters, rewrites only the text of the month options and the order of the year options, and checks the year on the server.