Using the Date Sheet

Use the Date sheet of the Report Formats dialog to change the default report formats for your date fields.

When entering separator text for long or short date formats in any of the controls in this dialog, you cannot use more than three characters as separator text.

If the separator text contains any of the characters d, M, y, g, h, H, m, s, or t, they are removed. The apostrophe character (’) is not displayed as such when used as a separator.

To change the default report formats for date fields

  1. Click the Date tab of the Report Formats dialog. The Date sheet is then displayed.

  2. The Use System Default check boxes are checked by default. The check box on the left applies to short date formats and the check box on the right applies to long date formats.

    If you make any changes to the controls on this dialog, the corresponding Use System Default check box automatically unchecks itself, indicating that system default values set by the Jade Report Writer Configuration application are no longer being used. Alternatively, to begin making your changes, you can manually uncheck either of these check boxes.

    To revert to the system default values at any time during the report design process, you can check either or both of the Use System Default check boxes. Note that setting both the short and long date system formats to the system default values also sets the Default to Short Date Format option to the system default.

The remaining controls on this sheet on the Report Formats dialog are identical to those on the Date sheet of the System Formats dialog and are described under "Date Sheet" in Chapter 3.

The Samples group box at the bottom of the sheet displays samples of the selected formats.