Date Format & Thank You Page

Hello all,

It would be much appreciated if someone would let me know: I was trying to submit the contact form as a test, so I filled it out and it told me there was an error because my date was an invalid format. I tried 01/17/2015, January 17, Jan 17, 01/17, January 17 2015, etc and could not get it to submit.

A coworker tells me that there is no thank you page she is sent to after filling out the contact form. How do I set up a confirmation page that a user is sent to after they fill out the contact form, and what is the proper format for the date? I want to have it in the title of the field so our users don’t experience this problem. (ex: ‘Desired Date (MM/DD/YY)

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