Re: Forms 5.0.6 - date formats

forms 5.0 ignored in the help to supply the following registry setting

1. FORMS50_DATE_USER_FORMAT - user keying format
2. FORMS50_OUTPUT_DATE_FORMAT - display format
3. FORMS50_ERROR_DATE_FORMAT - error line status display format

I found them by poking around their www site and found some release notes about it

I have the following settings

FORMS50_DATE_USER_FORMAT = MMDDRRRR  for Y2K issues
FORMS50_ERROR_DATE_FORMAT = MMDDRRRR
FORMS50_OUTPUT_DATE_FORMAT = DD-MON-YYYY

This way my users do not have to change the way they key there dates now and they will display in a readable format for them. Using the RRRR allows for keying 2 digit year and the +50 kicks in every century.

Add these settings as string values under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ORACLE. They are located in the place as the FORMS50_PATH etc.

Jim & Mitsy wrote in message ...
>Hi Everybody, here is a easy one, I hope...
>
>The Date field on the form, it is easy to define the format but is there
any
>way to allow the user to only enter the numbers and not have to enter the
>dashes?
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>Developer 2.1/Forms 5.0.6
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>Thanks in advance,
>
>Jim
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Received on Wed Feb 10 1999 - 19:14:07 CET