using perch:if with date tag

 <perch:if exists="date">
          <perch:content id="date" type="date" label="Course date" format="%d/%m/%Y" order="3" />
          <br/>
        </perch:if>

The date still shows on the front-end, I want to be able to control that as not all entries have a date associated.

Here's what I need to achieve, not sure it's doable!

Basically my template is for educational courses, some of which have course dates and some are TBA.

In the event that there is no associated date, I just need to hide the default date (today) and show TBA or nothing at all.

I know that this can usually be done with <perch:if> and else, but this functionality doesn't seem to work with the date tag.

Do you think this is achievable?

In short, is there a way to make adding a date optional?

You could do a checkbox for TBA

<perch:content type="checkbox" id="tba" value="1" label="TBA" suppress="true" />

And do a field for the date, and then do your perch:if

<perch:if exists="tba">
        ...COURSE DATE IS TBA...
<perch:else />
        ...<perch:content id="date" type="date" label="Course date" format="%d/%m/%Y" order="3" />...
</perch:if>

Then when you have the date, the content editor can uncheck tba and set the correct date.

Dexter! That worked a treat. Thanks for the contribution :)

Glad it helped :)