topic Re: Configurable Date Patterns? in Alfresco Archive

Configurable Date Patterns?

ryanj1 — Fri, 16 May 2014 22:22:33 GMT

The default date pattern is hard coded in the org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl class within the "initFormTypes()" method. As there are situations where it would be beneficial to be able to change the default date pattern (from "dd/MM/yyyy") without having to sub type that

Re: Configurable Date Patterns?

trademak — Mon, 19 May 2014 20:24:55 GMT

Hi Ryan,

Do you mean that you would like to define the default date format instead of defining a datePattern for every date formProperty?

Best regards,

Re: Configurable Date Patterns?

ryanj1 — Tue, 27 May 2014 14:16:49 GMT

Right. Though users obviously can utilize their desired datePattern in every formProperty to utilize whatever date format they desire, it could get onerous having to define that for every date form element in every process model in their systems. Thus, I think it would be preferred to have this be configurable, and it would be easy to add this functionality.

Re: Configurable Date Patterns?

jbarrez — Fri, 30 May 2014 08:53:19 GMT

Sounds good to me. I have nothing against having a default built in, makes sense!

Re: Configurable Date Patterns?

b_schnarr — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:46:39 GMT

This would be very helpful. Is this possible in the meantime?

Re: Configurable Date Patterns?

trademak — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:36:20 GMT

No, this is not added to the process engine configuration in the meantime.

Best regards,

Re: Configurable Date Patterns?

molikas — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:39:14 GMT

Is this still expected to be developed, is there a ticket for tracking?

Thank you in advance.

Re: Configurable Date Patterns?

trademak — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:17:22 GMT

I'm not aware of a JIRA issue, so if you would like to see it being address please raise one.

Best regards,