Discoverer date format - ignoring NLS_LANG

Hi, can't find answers to this anywhere. is there anybody out there that can help?
Admin edition: Create a new folder from database, select a table containing date columns, and finish. If you look at the properties for the date fields in the new folder the format is 'DD-MON-YYYY' regardless of what NLS_LANG is defined in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE. (set to English_France.WE8ISO8859P1 expecting dd/mm/yy).
The workaround at mo is to change the properties of each date field manually - very time consuming and prone to human error! Any suggestions?

You have to create the key NLS_DATE_FORMAT at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->ORACLE
Define your date mask there.
Fabio Back
[email protected]

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Discoverer admin date format - ignoring NLS_LANG ?

Hi, can't find answers to this anywhere. is there anybody out there that can help?
Admin edition: Create a new folder from database, select a table containing date columns, and finish.
If you look at the properties for the date fields in the new folder the format mask is 'DD-MON-YYYY' regardless of what NLS_LANG is defined in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE.
we've currently got it set to English_France.WE8ISO8859P1 expecting dd/mm/yyyy. (also tried creating an NLS_DATE_FORMAT key under the same registry path).
The workaround at mo is to change the properties of each date field manually - very time consuming and prone to human error! Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

You have to create the key NLS_DATE_FORMAT at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->ORACLE
Define your date mask there.
Fabio Back
[email protected]

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HI Kishore
Thanks for your reply i checked all the things but with no success. do think there could be any other place where i should check .
1. nqsconfig date format
its same for both the two installations
DATE_TIME_DISPLAY_FORMAT = "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mi:ss" ;
DATE_DISPLAY_FORMAT = "yyyy/mm/dd" ;
TIME_DISPLAY_FORMAT = "hh:mi:ss" ;
2. make sure that you didn't save date format in column properties from front-end
Just checked and we havan't saved anything in column properties .. even i created new report as well but still format was same ..
3. Did you mention anything in connection pool settings to set date format.
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4. Make sure that you are connecting to same database, and date format set for date is same here and there
yahh both the two installatiosn are connected to same database .. but not sure about "date format set for date is same here and there
" hw i can check this
finally, check this: http://108obiee.blogspot.com/2009/04/changing-date-format-mask-in-javascript.html
no its not on one column .. its to all the date format columns on all the reports .. so i think its not case with me .
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Hello
Two problems in fact.
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we are currently upgrading our discoverer from version 3.1.25 to version 10.2.0.1.0.
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Edited by: Mohanakrishnan T on May 5, 2009 1:09 PM
Edited by: Mohanakrishnan T on May 5, 2009 1:10 PM
Edited by: Mohanakrishnan T on May 5, 2009 1:11 PM
Edited by: Mohanakrishnan T on May 5, 2009 1:11 PM

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Hi Gordon,
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Edited by: Mohanakrishnan T on May 5, 2009 1:11 PM
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