BC4J Entity/View date attribute format

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I made a simple business component.
I tried to set the format of a date attribute in the Entity object and also in the View object.
I double clicked the attribute in structure window, changed Format Type in Control Hints tab to
"Simple Date" and Format to "dd-MM-yyyy" but running the tester or a JClient application based on that component nothing changes. The format remains "yyyy-MM-dd".
Does anyone know what is going wrong?
Minas

Do you select the format "dd-mm-yyyy" or do you just typ it in into the field format type of the control hints?
If you just type in the value you have to do some changes so that "dd-mm-yyyy" comes also in the combobox so you can select it!!
You have to change a thing in the formatinfo.xml document
In this document you see the next tag:
<DOMAIN CLASS="oracle.jbo.domain.Date">
<FORMATTER name="Simple Date" class="oracle.jbo.format.DefaultDateFormatter">
<FORMAT text="yyyy-MM-dd" />
<FORMAT text="yyyy-MM-dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss" />
<FORMAT text="EEE, MMM d, ''yy" />
</FORMATTER>
</DOMAIN>
put in the next sentence
<FORMAT text="dd-MM-yyyy" />
and then this new format type comes in the combobox on the control hints. If you now select it, it normally works!
It works with me after I did the changes into formatinfo.xml so I hope it also works with you!!

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