Date input - saved format

Hi,

Is there any easy way to change the saved date format?


It's pretty easy to change the format shown to the user:
<property as="xs:string"  name="oxf.xforms.format.input.date"  value="[D].[M].[Y]"/>

But I couldn't find any property to change the saved format.


 

Hi Inanda,

No: by design, dates are always saved in the ISO format. If you really need to have the date stored in another form (but, really, do you?), then you could create another hidden control, with a calculated value that "formats" the date in format you need.

Alex

Hi Alessandro,

Thanks, it was just to confirm that there isn't a property to configure it.
I would need a different format, because in the beginning of the project the customer did not want the Date component with a calendar in the form. So we used a normal input field which validates the format dd.mm.yyyy, but now  they were thinking about change it to use the Date component with Calendar. So we would need to use this component and keep the dd.mm.yyyy format in database, but as it does not have a quick property to configure it, maybe it will not be priority for now.