For date variables that are saved as text in some weird format, would be great to have a special R/JS variable that a user could insert and manually specify the format that the date is in (kind of like Excel where you can use the YYYY-MM-DD type of annotation). Otherwise, you have to manually strip out the date from the text using custom R code.

When dates are stored as text they may be in a different format than what Displayr expects and you can’t change the Structure from Text to Date/Time and have them converted. Instead you have to use code. Would be nice to have a field/automation/or be prompted when changing the structure to have the user specify the format the date is in, such as the Excel type of syntax that’s more user-friendly: YYYYMMDD etc. This would avoid users having to write and troubleshoot code to do this.