Adding and Maintaining Formats

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Adding and Maintaining Formats

Use the Formats command from the Schema menu in the Schema Browser to define format strings for use with primitive types in your schema methods.

The EnhancedLocaleSupport parameter in the [JadeEnvironment] section of the JADE initialization file enables handling of standard client and presentation client locale-sensitive formatting of date, time, and numeric values (that is, numbers and currency) to be standardized and the regional overrides set on the presentation client to be forwarded to the application server so that both nodes use a consistent set of locale settings for the application when running in JADE thin client mode.

To access the Format Browser

Select the Formats command from the Schema menu.

The Format Browser is then displayed. Use the Format Browser to define or maintain format strings for use with primitive types in your schema methods.

The Formats menu, accessed from the Format Browser, contains the commands listed in the following table.

Command	Action	For details, see …
Add Short Date Format	Displays the Add Short Date Format dialog	Adding a Short Date Format
Add Long Date Format	Displays the Add Long Date Format dialog	Adding a Long Date Format
Add Time Format	Displays the Add Time Format dialog	Adding a Time Format
Add Numeric Format	Displays the Number Format dialog	Adding a Numeric Format
Add Currency Format	Displays the Add Currency Format dialog	Adding a Currency Format
Change	Displays the Format dialog for the selected format	Maintaining Formats
References	Displays the References window for the selected string	Viewing References to Formats
Remove Format	Deletes the selected format	Removing a Format

For example, if you define a short date format called MyShortFormat using the Add Short Date Format command, you could use that format in a JADE method, as follows.

write "The date today is " & date.userFormat($MyLongDate);
// Outputs The date today is Wednesday, 27 of November, 2002

When you use a defined format in a JADE method, you must prefix your user format names with a dollar sign ($); for example, userFormat($MyDate).

The date would then be formatted in the manner defined in the Add Short Date Format dialog for MyShortFormat.

When you select a format in the Format Browser, an example of the selected format is displayed in the status line.

You can expand (open) and collapse (close) format sheet nodes in the Format Browser. For example, if you have a number of short date formats, double-click the Short Date Formats sheet to suppress the display of your short date formats.