For comfortable editing of form fields of type Date and for getting a date picker you can configure the date-time component within the Details Pane Template.

Example code

Code

{{#form-container legacyController=legacyController}}
    {{#if editable}}
        {{#responsive-grid-area}}
            <div data-col="sm-4 xs-12 valign-sm-center valign-xs-bottom">
				{{label-helper value=editModel.CreateDate label="Created:"}}
			</div>
            <div data-col="sm-8 xs-12 valign-center" class="editable-field">
				{{date-time value=editModel.CreateDate format="L"}}
			</div>
        {{/responsive-grid-area}}
    {{else}}
        {{#responsive-grid-area}}      
            <div data-col="sm-4 xs-12 valign-sm-center valign-xs-bottom">
				Created:
			</div>
            <div data-col="sm-8 xs-12 valign-center">
				{{format-date model.CreateDate "L"}}
			</div>
        {{/responsive-grid-area}}
    {{/if}}
{{/form-container}}
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