Title: Please enter a value – date problem
Last modified: April 4, 2017

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# Please enter a value – date problem

 *  Resolved [tudorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tudorg/)
 * (@tudorg)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-enter-a-value-date-problem/)
 * i am getting stuck with cf7, if i make date not required on mailchimp i can subscribe
   an email but with enabled it is seeing no value from my form “please enter a 
   value” i have change the merge tag to booking on mailchimp and cf7
 * here is my form what am i doing wrong, form works fine else from that, have the
   datepicker for cf7 enabled
 * <label> First Name (required)
    [text* First-name mc4wp-FNAME id:FNAME] </label
   > <label> Last Name (required) [text* Last-name mc4wp-LNAME id:LNAME] </label
   > <label> Email (required) [email* Lead-email mc4wp-EMAIL id:EMAIL] </label> 
   <label> Telephone [tel* tel-413 placeholder “Phone Number”] </label> <label> 
   Viewing Date (required) [date date-20 date-format:dd/mm/yy mc4wp-BOOKING] </label
   > <label> Appointment Time [time* time-5 time-format:HH:mm min-minute:00 max-
   minute:69] </label> <label> Assign lead to [select* menu-78 “person a” “person
   b”] </label> [mc4wp_checkbox]
 * <label> Notes
    [textarea your-message] </label>
 * [submit “Send”]

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 *  Thread Starter [tudorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tudorg/)
 * (@tudorg)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-enter-a-value-date-problem/#post-8994495)
 * I can answer the problem myself, contact form 7 does not use input type=date 
   but type text this is the issue so need to find out if poss to change cf7 code
   somewhere
 *  Plugin Contributor [Harish Chouhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hchouhan/)
 * (@hchouhan)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-enter-a-value-date-problem/#post-9011692)
 * Hello,
 * Thanks for sharing the details. I assume this is an issue in CF7? If yes I would
   recommend contacting their support. I’m marking this as resolved here, but please
   feel to open the ticket again if there is something we can do from our end.

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