OAF changes Date Format

Question

Hi
I need to store a date into a flexfield. We have enabled the Flexfield and there is NO value set attached to it.
This attribute is already in the VO as a varchar, so we have just added a new column into the page as data type Date and link it to the flexfield column.
In this page we have a table layout so the user can enter 10 rows before saving them. And this page it just used to punch data into a table, which means, once the user press apply the page saves and clears. The user can not query on that page.
When entering the first row, we can open the Date picker and we can choose the date and then it populates the column as “DD-MON-YYYY”.
The problem is:
When we entering the second row after entering one column the pages changes the format of my date from the previous record to “YYYY-MM-DD”, then after entering any second column the pages clear the date from the previous row.
Running the page from JDev it shows the following message before clears the flexfield:
java.text.ParseException: 2011-01-28
Note we have not extended the VO and not extended the controller.
My questions are:
1) Why the Self-Service is change the date format to YYYY-MM-DD even if the profile ICX: Date Format Mask (31-DEC-1999) and my preference is set to DD-MON-YYYY?
2) How can I avoid this to happen? Is there any way to keep my date as DD-MON-YYYY?
Thanks,
Alex

Answer 1

Alex,
That was the update from Oracle support, when we raised it,
But I did the following to handle that, I feel this is not the right way, since we had that issue as SEV1, I did that as a workaround,
Check this this might help.
package oracle.apps.xxper.selfservice.appraisals.webui;
import com.sun.java.util.collections.HashMap;
import java.io.Serializable;
import oracle.apps.fnd.common.VersionInfo;
import oracle.apps.fnd.framework.OAApplicationModule;
import oracle.apps.fnd.framework.OAException;
import oracle.apps.fnd.framework.webui.*;
import oracle.apps.fnd.framework.webui.beans.OAWebBean;
import oracle.apps.fnd.framework.webui.beans.form.OASubmitButtonBean;
import oracle.apps.fnd.framework.webui.beans.message.OAMessageCheckBoxBean;
import oracle.apps.per.selfservice.appraisals.ApprConstants;
import oracle.apps.per.selfservice.arch.webui.PerOAControllerImpl;
import oracle.apps.per.selfservice.common.webui.CommonCO;
import oracle.apps.per.selfservice.compgaps.Constants;
import oracle.apps.per.selfservice.appraisals.webui.MAFinalRatingsPageCO;
import oracle.apps.fnd.framework.server.OADBTransaction;
import oracle.apps.fnd.framework.OAViewObject;
import java.sql.CallableStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import oracle.jbo.Row;
import oracle.apps.fnd.framework.webui.beans.message.OAMessageDateFieldBean;
import oracle.apps.per.selfservice.appraisals.server.AppraisalVORowImpl;
public class XXPERMAFinalRatingsPageCO extends MAFinalRatingsPageCO
public void processRequest(OAPageContext pageContext, OAWebBean webBean)
super.processRequest(pageContext, webBean);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"Start PR XXPERMAFinalRatingsPageCO ");
OAMessageDateFieldBean dateBean =(OAMessageDateFieldBean) webBean.findChildRecursive("DeliveryDateTime");
if(dateBean !=null )
String dateBeanValue = (String) dateBean.getValue(pageContext) ;
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateBean Value "+dateBeanValue);
if(dateBeanValue !=null)
if(dateBeanValue.indexOf(".0") !=-1)
dateBeanValue = dateBeanValue.substring(0,dateBeanValue.length()-2);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateBean Updated Value "+dateBeanValue);
String dateMaskQry = "SELECT value FROM V$NLS_Parameters WHERE parameter ='NLS_DATE_FORMAT'";
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateMaskQry "+dateMaskQry);
String dateMask = (String) executeSql(dateMaskQry, pageContext, webBean);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateMask : "+dateMask);
String dateConvertQry = "select to_char(fnd_date.canonical_to_date('"+dateBeanValue+"') ,'"+dateMask+" HH24:MI:SS') from dual";
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateConvertQry "+dateConvertQry);
String convertedDateValue = (String) executeSql(dateConvertQry,pageContext,webBean);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"convertedDateValue "+convertedDateValue);
if(convertedDateValue == null )
convertedDateValue = dateBeanValue;
dateBean.setValue(pageContext,convertedDateValue);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"After set the value "+convertedDateValue);
setAttribute3(pageContext, convertedDateValue);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"After set the VO value "+convertedDateValue);
}else
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateBean value is null from the bean Get the value from getAttribute3() method");
dateBeanValue = getAttribute3(pageContext);
dateBean.setValue(pageContext,dateBeanValue);
}else
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateBean is null ");
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"End PR XXPERMAFinalRatingsPageCO ");
public void processFormRequest(OAPageContext pageContext, OAWebBean webBean)
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"Start PFR XXPERMAFinalRatingsPageCO ");
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"Event Param "+pageContext.getParameter(EVENT_PARAM));
OAMessageDateFieldBean dateBean =(OAMessageDateFieldBean) webBean.findChildRecursive("DeliveryDateTime");
if(dateBean !=null )
String dateBeanValue = (String) dateBean.getValue(pageContext) ;
if(dateBeanValue !=null)
if(dateBeanValue.indexOf(".0") !=-1)
dateBeanValue = dateBeanValue.substring(0,dateBeanValue.length()-2);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateBean Updated Value "+dateBeanValue);
String dateMaskQry = "SELECT value FROM V$NLS_Parameters WHERE parameter ='NLS_DATE_FORMAT'";
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateMaskQry "+dateMaskQry);
String dateMask = (String) executeSql(dateMaskQry, pageContext, webBean);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateMask : "+dateMask);
String dateConvertQry = "select to_char(fnd_date.canonical_to_date('"+dateBeanValue+"') ,'"+dateMask+" HH24:MI:SS') from dual";
//String dateConvertQry = "select fnd_date.string_to_canonical('"+dateBeanValue+"','"+dateMask+" HH24:MI:SS') from dual";
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateConvertQry "+dateConvertQry);
String convertedDateValue = (String) executeSql(dateConvertQry,pageContext,webBean);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"convertedDateValue "+convertedDateValue);
if(convertedDateValue == null )
convertedDateValue = dateBeanValue;
dateBean.setValue(pageContext,convertedDateValue);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"After set the value "+convertedDateValue);
setAttribute3(pageContext, convertedDateValue);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"After set the VO value "+convertedDateValue);
}else
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"dateBean is null ");
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"End PFR XXPERMAFinalRatingsPageCO ");
super.processFormRequest(pageContext, webBean);
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"End PFR XXPERMAFinalRatingsPageCO (After Super Call )");
public void writeLog(String moduleName, OAPageContext pageContext, String diagText)
if(pageContext.isLoggingEnabled(OAWebBeanConstants.STATEMENT))
System.out.println(moduleName+" : "+diagText);
pageContext.writeDiagnostics(moduleName,diagText,OAWebBeanConstants.STATEMENT);
* Method to execute SQL.
public Object executeSql(String pSqlStmt, OAPageContext pageContext , OAWebBean webBean)
OADBTransaction tx = pageContext.getApplicationModule(webBean).getOADBTransaction();// (OADBTransaction)getOADBTransaction();
Object lObject = null;
// Create the callable statement
CallableStatement lCstmt = (CallableStatement)tx.createCallableStatement(pSqlStmt, 1);
ResultSet rs = null;
try
rs = lCstmt.executeQuery();
while(rs.next())
lObject = rs.getObject(1);
catch (Exception e)
//throw OAException.wrapperException(e);
finally
try {
if(rs!=null)
rs.close();
if(lCstmt != null)
lCstmt.close();
catch(Exception e) {
throw OAException.wrapperException(e);
return lObject;
} // executeSql
public void setAttribute3(OAPageContext pageContext, String dateValue)
OAApplicationModule rootAM = pageContext.getRootApplicationModule();
OAApplicationModule apprAM = (OAApplicationModule)rootAM.findApplicationModule("AppraisalsAM");
OAViewObject appraisalVO = (OAViewObject)apprAM.findViewObject("AppraisalVO");
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"appraisalVO "+appraisalVO);
if(appraisalVO !=null)
AppraisalVORowImpl appraisalVORow = (AppraisalVORowImpl) appraisalVO.getCurrentRow();
if(appraisalVORow !=null)
int attrCount = appraisalVO.getAttributeCount();
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"Attrbuute count "+attrCount);
String[] attributeNames = appraisalVORow.getAttributeNames();
appraisalVORow.setAttribute3(dateValue);
public String getAttribute3(OAPageContext pageContext)
OAApplicationModule rootAM = pageContext.getRootApplicationModule();
OAApplicationModule apprAM = (OAApplicationModule)rootAM.findApplicationModule("AppraisalsAM");
String attribute3Value = "N";
OAViewObject appraisalVO = (OAViewObject)apprAM.findViewObject("AppraisalVO");
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"appraisalVO "+appraisalVO);
if(appraisalVO !=null)
AppraisalVORowImpl appraisalVORow = (AppraisalVORowImpl) appraisalVO.getCurrentRow();
if(appraisalVORow !=null)
int attrCount = appraisalVO.getAttributeCount();
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext,"Attrbuute count "+attrCount);
String[] attributeNames = appraisalVORow.getAttributeNames();
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext," AppraisalId :- "+ appraisalVORow.getAppraisalId());
attribute3Value = (String)appraisalVORow.getAttribute3();
String attribute1Value = (String)appraisalVORow.getAttribute1();//getAttribute2
String attribute2Value = (String)appraisalVORow.getAttribute2();
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext," attribute3Value :- "+attribute3Value + " attribute1Value "+ attribute1Value +"attribute2Value "+attribute2Value);
}else
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext," appraisalVORow is null ");
}else
writeLog("XXPER",pageContext," appraisalVO is null ");
return attribute3Value;
}