Insert custom date field from Drupal Webform

Question

I'm trying to set up a Drupal Webform that will (among other things), automatically update a custom date field in the connected CiviCRM contact record. The date field in the webform is hidden, and I'm using Drupal Tokens to generate the date/time when the form is submitted; in the webform results I see the correctly generated date and time, but it isn't then passed to the custom date field in the contact record. (I've tried this with both date & time and date being recorded in the CiviCRM custom field, and with different date tokens generated by the webform - none seem to work).

I'm assuming that the webform is generating a date format that can't be interpreted by the custom field, but I can't see a way to match them up.

Other custom fields filled in via the webform are being populated correctly (I haven't tested this extensively).

I'm using Drupal 7.59 and CiviCRM 5.0.2

Answer 1

We're using dates in this example (custom fields on the grant entity) - I just checked - these dates are working properly:

So try this: set the date field to NOW -> using the method I described here: How can I create early bird fees with Webform CiviCRM? -> for your Date fields;

Let me know if that works.