Date and DateTime format

Hi,

I was just wondering if there was a standard way of customising all date/datetime elements in a report (including title and footer), by setting the format for date/datetime.

If it's not directly possible, is there a way to do the same through the engine API, byt iterating through all report elements?

Many thanks,
Cedric

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mwilliams

Hi Cedric,<br />
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I don't think there is a way to set a default format for date and/or dateTime elements. I also don't know that there's a good way to step through a report and change it either. The only thing I can think of is that it's probably possible to go into the source code and change it to have a standard format, but I wouldn't even know where to tell you to get started on that.<br />
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What is the reason for needing this functionality? You could always request an enhancement for this at <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/reportabug.php'>BIRT: Reporting Bugs and Requesting Enhancements</a>

cypherdj

Hi Michael,

thanks for your response. Basically, we have a requirement to support multiple date formats. For the report title and footer, I simply set an engine property on initialising the report engine, so it's picked up from the report context. That works fine.

But where we use crosstabs/charts with dates, the date formatting defined in the report is applied.

I think if the Format DateTime section of the report element property supported expressions, I could do the same as for the title and footer. I'll log an enhancement for this.

Thanks,
Cedric