Please enable Date Picker to operate against a field in collection when its not used inside a form element. Date Picker should be able map to a date field in a collection, like the standard input field component. It should be able to display the current date in the collection and if the user clicks on the date they then get the calendar drop down to select any new date.
Pretty standard functionality.
If I have it wrong or there is another component or way of doing this.. PLEASE let me know.
Also if we can stretch it. The date field should have more format settings or regex type syntax to be able to show the date the way the app needs to display it for example dd, mmm, yyyy or dd mmm or with different time expressions as well.