# \[Feature-13763\] Perspective Datetime Input, option to disable keyboard input

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13763-perspective-datetime-input-option-to-disable-keyboard-input/23618>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [March 26, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13763-perspective-datetime-input-option-to-disable-keyboard-input/23618 "2019-03-26T20:29:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![nburt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/2bfe46/32.png) [@nburt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nburt)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13763-perspective-datetime-input-option-to-disable-keyboard-input/23618/1 "2019-03-26T20:29:38Z")

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I was wondering if there is, or could be in the future, a way to prevent the user from typing a value into a Datetime Input component, similar to how you can disable searching in a Dropdown component.

The use case for this is on a tablet when the user clicks on the Datetime Input component, the keyboard pops up and squishes the remaining view port space making it too small to fully display the calendar that also popups up when clicking on the Datetime Input component.

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**Author:** ![awalker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/awalker/32/6874_2.png) [@awalker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/awalker)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13763-perspective-datetime-input-option-to-disable-keyboard-input/23618/2 "2019-05-02T18:35:31Z")

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Hi @nburt,

I’ve put in a ticket to see the possibility of getting this feature added in the future. I will let you know when I find out more.

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**Author:** ![jfowler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jfowler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jfowler)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13763-perspective-datetime-input-option-to-disable-keyboard-input/23618/3 "2020-02-13T18:22:31Z")

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Were there ever any developments on this?

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**Author:** ![JMicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@JMicky](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JMicky)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13763-perspective-datetime-input-option-to-disable-keyboard-input/23618/4 "2020-04-24T13:55:52Z")

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Hi @awalker,

Did this feature make it into the build?  
I’m seeing the same on V8.0.11.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13763-perspective-datetime-input-option-to-disable-keyboard-input/23618/5 "2020-04-24T16:19:45Z")

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This is still a low priority feature ticket on our backlog. Right now the Perspective team is more focused on high-level optimization, so new features, especially relatively minor ones like this, are probably going to wait for a while. We’ll update this thread if there’s any movement on the bug ticket.

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**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13763-perspective-datetime-input-option-to-disable-keyboard-input/23618/6 "2020-05-05T00:53:36Z")

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This feature will be resolved with the 8.0.13 release