Thanks Deepak.
Will explore it further from there.
Regards
Sameer Apte
On 4 Jul 2017 18:52, "Deepak Dixit" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Welcome Sameer,
>
> There are two things. One is datetime field render by freemarker, when you
> create screen or form finally it will use freemarker to generate html.
>
> In FreemarkerWorker.java we have set the default datetime formate for
> freemarker template.
> {code}
>
> newConfig.setSetting("datetime_format", "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
>
> {code}
> So all the date will be render in mentioned formate.
>
> In case of datetime picker its an javascript (jquery ) plugin that render
> the datetime picker.
> and it uses the i18 to render the locale based date time formate (please
> refer jquery-ui-i18n.js
>
>
> Thanks & Regards
> --
> Deepak Dixit
> www.hotwaxsystems.com
> www.hotwax.co
>
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Sameer Apte <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > First of all. I am impressed with efforts put by you all in Ofbiz. Really
> > appreciate it!
> > I Was feeling to get my hands dirty with it so was trying to play around
> > creating screens etc. especially using Person entity.
> >
> > However, I am a bit confused with handling of date time formats.
> > Hopefully some of you can help me with it.
> >
> > *==========Creating Person===========*
> > - I have created a menu item saying 'create'.
> > - When clicked user is shown a popup wherein he can enter in name and
> date
> > of birth.
> > - Datepicker works here and format used is 'dd/mm/yyyy HH:MI:SS' e.g.
> > 14/07/2017 17:18:44
> > -The format seems to be matching the one used by operating system.
> > *==========Showing Person Details =================*
> > - Then user saves the entered values.
> > - Person entity gets created successfully & user is shown details of the
> > person created.
> > - On this page the date of birth is displayed using format 'yyyy-MM-dd'
> > e.g. 2017-07-14
> >
> > The line from form doing this is
> > <field name="birthDate" title="Date of Birth" required-field="true"
> > position="1"><display default-value="${person.birthDate}"/></field>
> > *=========Editing Person ==========================*
> > - I have edit button right next person details.
> > - If user clicks on it I show same form that was used for creating Person
> > but this time with hidden party id etc.
> > - The form seems to be working as expected because I can change Person
> name
> > etc. without any issues.
> > - However 'date of birth' textbox shows date in the form of 'yyyy-MM-dd'
> > and datepicker button next to it is missing.
> > =====================================================
> >
> > Now coming to the question, I was under impression that by default, ofbiz
> > would consistently use same date time format if I am not changing
> anything
> > anywhere. i.e. whatever it chose right at the beginning.
> > However it seems like when we fetch the datetime from db, due to some
> > reason ofbiz goes for 'yyyy-MM-dd' instead of what it did on user
> creation
> > screen i.e. 'dd/mm/yyyy HH:MI:SS'.
> > My guess is this also make datepicker javascript fail on edit screen
> which
> > works during creation of user.
> >
> > Below is how I have included the person's birth date on the form.
> > *<field name="birthDate" title="Date of Birth"
> > required-field="true"><date-time/></field>*
> > It is the same form that gets used for creating as well as editing. I
> have
> > followed how it is done in Example application.
> >
> > Any hint about what is it that I am missing here? Is there any single
> place
> > where I can say use 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mi:ss' globally?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sameer Apte
> >
>
