Get current user's date format for a Date Field

Hi IranK,

You can use rbv_api.formatDate (for backkend) or rbf_formatDate (for front end). 

e.g.

var currentDate = new Date("new Date(rbv_api.getCurrentDate())");
    currentDate = rbv_api.formatDate(currentDate, "yyyy/MM/dd");
return currentDate;

I tried parsing the {!CURR_USER#dateFormat} to date value but seems to be not a valid date format so in the sample I get the current date in the Helper then use the rbv_api.formatDate

Hope this may help.

Regards,
Orchid

I think I did not explain my question properly. For a particular User, you have date format settings

I would like to get the format in which the date is displayed for that user i.e. for eg: yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM for the above user and format my date fields value it in the same format for that user. Users can have different date format settings and I would like to get their settings and display them the date in their own format. Any possible resolution to that?

We dont have a server or client side API which can take in a date and format it using user's date format pattern. It would probably be nice to have one.

Hello Manoj,

Thanks for your reply. We have customers that have US and UK date formats and we are setting the date field to have three months plus the current date. Now if current date for a user is lets say today in the format: 12-02-2015 - 12th of Feb, whilst for another user its like 2015-02-12 and so on. We are setting the field onload and because we are not catering for the user's date format its giving us an error and not allowing us to save the record. Is there a javascript/jquery method to cater for this instead?

Hi,

I can't think of way to dynamically get the format instead you can have it hardcoded based on its value.
On the event of the Date Format specify onchange function (object definition > Date Field > Event > onchange > getSelectedValue();)

After specify the code below. Kindly double check if each case corresponds with your dropdown format.

<script>
function getSelectedValue() {
  var dateFormat = rbf_getFieldValue("dateFormat");
  var format;
  console.log(dateFormat);
	switch (parseInt(dateFormat)) {
	    case 0:
	        format = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt";
	        break;
	    case 1:
	        format = "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm";
	        break;
	    case 2:
	        format = "dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm";
	        break;
	    case 3:
	        format = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm";
	        break;
	    case 4:
	        format = "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm";
	        break;
	    case 5:
	        format = "dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm";
	        break;
	    case 6:
	        format = "yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm";
	        break;
	    case 7:
	        format = "yyyy-MMM-dd hh:mm";
	        break;
	    case 8:
	        format = "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:s";
	        break;
	    
	}
	console.log(format);
}
</script>

Regards,
Orchid

Hi Orchid,

Thank you for you answer !

This code works fine for returning the current user format. So we added a script component with your function getSelectedValue in both pages "Edit User" (other users) and "Personal Setup" (current user) of object User, as well as a field we called "Correct Date Format", in which the format of teh date is stored.

Now we are just using the value in this field to format any dates in our application,

We still have an issue with the function "rbf_formatDate(date,format)", which does not seem to recognize this format :  "2015-Feb-18 12:52". I think only formats with numbers are recognized.

PS : When you change your date format (in settings user), you need to log out/ log in, before the format to be updated.

Thank you :)

Meryem

Hello Orchid & M,

I actually managed to get it working properly using a template field (dateFormatTemplate) with the above mentioned function but instead of using the rbf_dateFormat() to format the date, I've used a jquery ui function to do that. Possibly be useful for someone who might want to use this in the future.

jQueryUI date formatter: 
var dateTimeFormatted = $.datepicker.formatDate('{!#CURR_USER.dateFormatTemplate#value}', curDate);

Thanks for the function.

Hi IramK,

Thank you for sharing this info. This is helpful to other users.

Regards,

Orchid

This requirement has been addressed in Rollbase 4.0 release (New UI pages). Please review the code snippet below:

<script>

var rbf_getPageContext = function(){

 return rbf_isNewUI() ? rb.newui.page.PageContext : null;

};

try{

var pageContext = rbf_getPageContext ();

if(!Boolean(pageContext)){

throw "This script component is written specific to New UI Context.";

}

var locContext = pageContext .getPageLocalization();

rb.newui.util.logToConsole('Date format pattern -'+locContext.getDateFormat());

rb.newui.util.logToConsole('Date format (long) pattern -'+locContext.getLongDateFormat());

//how to format a date as per user's localization settings

rb.newui.util.logToConsole('Current date formatted as per users localization settings -'+

rbf_formatDate(new Date(),locContext.getLongDateFormat()));

//similarly for other formats

}

catch(err){

if(console){

console.log('Error executing script component in page. '+err);

}

}

</script>