Form Submission Date: How to Find the Unique Name

Please assist me to know the Unique Name of Submission Date.

Hi Abdul,

Thanks for reaching out to Jotform Support. I'm an AI assistant here to assist you.

A Unique Name in Jotform is an identifier for a field that is automatically generated when the field is added to the form. It is used to reference the value of that field in various places such as URL parameters, emails, Thank You Pages, and Paragraph elements.

Regarding the Submission Date, its Unique Name is the identifier you would use to reference the submission date value in your form submissions or integrations.

To find the exact Unique Name of the Submission Date field in your form, you can follow these steps:

1. Open your form in Form Builder.
2. Select the Submission Date field.
3. Look for the Unique Name property in the field settings or properties panel. This is usually displayed as a field identifier or name.

You can also refer to this guide on how to find field IDs and names for more detailed instructions.

If you want to use the Submission Date in emails, URL parameters, or other references, use this Unique Name as the key.

Let me know if you need help locating it within your specific form.

Give it a try and let us know how it goes.

A Submission Date is a system generated field which is not showing in the form, so please shaer it's Unique Name starting with { and ending with } or ask someone from the technical team to assist me on it.

Hi Abdul,

The Submission Date is a system-generated field in Jotform, and its Unique Name is typically used within curly braces { } when referencing it in emails, Thank You pages, or other places.

The Unique Name for the Submission Date is {submission_date}.

You can use this tag to reference the submission date value in your form notifications, autoresponders, or anywhere else in your form where field tags are supported.

Let us know if you need further assistance with this.

It doesn't work, ask someone to assist me on it

Hi Abdul,

One of our Support Team members will take it from here to follow up shortly.

Hi Abdul,

The Submission Date isn’t typically included in notification emails or on the Thank You page, so I’m checking internally with our team to confirm the exact field name used for it in the table. I’ll follow up with you as soon as I have that information. Also, can you explain a bit more about where you wanted to use this?

In the meantime, please feel free to reach out if you have any other questions.

Absolutely this unique name will be use in email messages and thank you page.

Hi Abdul,

Thanks for your patience while we looked into this. I just heard back from our team. While date and time stamps aren’t included as default fields in email templates or thank you pages, adding the {DATE} tag is a simple way to show the submission date. Checkout the screenshots below to see my results:

• Date tag in the Notification Email:

• How it reflects in the received email:

You can also customize how the date appears by choosing from different formats. For more details, feel free to check out our guide on how to add a date to an email notification.

Reach out again if you have any other questions.

The provided solution for the current date, but i am looking for a specific date at a specific time of submission of the form, so that it could determine that someone submitted the data on (Date of Submission), and now the status of this submission is being updated on (Current Date)

Hi Abdul,

The system tag {submissionDate} is what captures the actual timestamp of each submission. When you add this tag to your email template or Thank You page, it will display the precise submission date and time for that entry.

This way, you can show when the form was originally submitted and then separately reference the current date for status updates. If you’d like, I can share steps on formatting {submissionDate} so it appears in the style you prefer.

Reach out again if there’s anything else we can help you with.

{submissionDate} is not working because it has not been verified.

sorry for my previous message

{submissionDate} is not working, its not showing in email or thank you message

Hi Abdul,

When I tested the special {DATE} tag, it correctly returned the timestamp of the form submission. Take a look at the screenshots below:

Email content:

Can you give it a try to see if it resolves the issue?

Give it a try and let us know how it goes.