Date picker control

[jenniferh]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question but since I'm working with records management I thought I'd try here first. I have a form in share that uses a date picker control. The date is displaying in the edit field in UK English instead of US English. For example, Jan 13, 2012 displays as 13/1/2012. I need it to display as 1/13/2012. I was able to "fix" this by overriding the form.get_en.properties under /WEB-Inf/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/form. That is, I created a site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/form directory structure under my extensions/web-extension folder and copied the form.get_en.properties file there. Then I changed the following two properties:

form.control.date-picker.entry.date.format
form.control.date-picker.display.date.format

This worked but I am wondering if there is a better way to do it (i.e., just overriding those two properties without having to copy the contents of the entire file). Also, I thought that US English was supposed to be the default so I'm confused as to why the date picker control is displaying UK English.

[abhashree]

Hi Jenniferh,

As per my knowledge you had done it a right way.
If you want to override some contents of a file then only overriding the required properties without overriding entire properties of the file will be effective .

Thanks
Abhashree

[jenniferh]

Hi Abhashree,

Thanks for your reply, but I am still confused. Your reply suggests there is a way to override only those two properties. Can you explain how to do this without having to copy the contents of the entire file?

Thanks,
Jennifer

[sharifu]

I have done this but it is not working for me

My default is set to UK English and i wan to change it to US English format for my custom model content that I created, so the properties with d:date in my model should display in US format and not UK.

[jenniferh]

If you changed the properties in the .war file you may need to delete your tmp and work folders in your server directory before you can see the change.

[sharifu]

Don''t understand what you mean