Default value (on page load) for date value in Custom Field w/ multi-data on Contribution Page does not persist - and is reset to first date recorded instead (#2054) · Issues · Development / Core

Default value (on page load) for date value in Custom Field w/ multi-data on Contribution Page does not persist - and is reset to first date recorded instead

Issue Description:

Contribution page has a Profile contains Custom data -> Tab multi-data fields (Year, Education Hours and Hours Worked) so that every year Members can record this data ->

What this does is place the current year onto the form: 0 years before and 0 years after and a default value -> all = 2020

This has been working since 2014. Not sure when it regressed as this is an annual registration process (Sep - Dec every year).
Issue: on Contribution page: on load -> all is well -> 2020

On both Confirmation and Thank you page -> 2014 (as opposed to 2020) and note the 2014 is also recorded in the CiviCRM database:

Here is what does work -> if I configure the Custom Field to allow -1 and +1 years - so 2019, 2020 and 2021 -> and if (on the contribution page) -> I first toggle the year to 2021 -> and then toggle it back to 2020. Then the 2020 value is persisting across Confirmation and Thank you pages!
So the default on load value for such a date field is no longer persisting.

Issue Description:

1. Contribution page has a Profile contains Custom data -> Tab multi-data fields (Year, Education Hours and Hours Worked) so that every year Members can record this data ->

![image](/uploads/4bd15553c2e7000d0ad4e1731764ea37/image.png)

2. What this does is place the current year onto the form: 0 years before and 0 years after and a default value -> all = 2020

![image](/uploads/0302ab545231e79f692ca7b8dae4695d/image.png)

3. This has been working since 2014. Not sure when it regressed as this is an annual registration process (Sep - Dec every year).

4. Issue: on Contribution page: on load -> all is well -> 2020
![image](/uploads/e55c0dbeeab968d3607c7fad72c577d1/image.png)

On both Confirmation and Thank you page -> 2014 (as opposed to 2020) and note the 2014 is also recorded in the CiviCRM database:
![image](/uploads/a1efa7a62927d961ba0af11d4c9921d0/image.png)

5. Here is what does work -> if I configure the Custom Field to allow -1 and +1 years - so 2019, 2020 and 2021 -> and if (on the contribution page) -> I first toggle the year to 2021 -> and then toggle it back to 2020. Then the 2020 value is persisting across Confirmation and Thank you pages!

6. So the default on load value for such a date field is no longer persisting.

Edited Sep 20, 2020 by KarinG

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