OA FRAMEWORK DATE FORMAT IS CONFLICTING WITH PERSONAL DATE FORMAT IN APPRAI

Question

We are using Self service appraisals forms and added a field using oa framework personalizations. The field is available in the View Object and is mapped to an Attribute (DFF) field. The created item is of style Message Input Text with datatype DATE. This generates a small calendar icon right beside the field. On clicking the icon a calendar window pops up and a date can be selected. The date is inserted in the field in the format 23-Sep-2008. My personal preferences (equal to site preference) state that the date format should be DD-MON-YYYY. When I press continue in the appraisal form the date in the field is automatically changed in 2008/09/23. This obviously causes a validation error (screen popup). When I change my personal preference date format to YYYY/MM/DD everything works fine. However, we do not want to use date format YYYY/MM/DD. What setting determines the date format used for validating by OA Framework pages?

Answer 1

Thank you for your answer. First of all I am a functional consultant using basic personalization functionality to modify the layout of the standard forms and to enable the display of some of the descriptive flexfield attributes (you are correct) we activated on the competence elements entity. I encounter a problem with the dateformat and the fact that it is changing.. Can you be more precise in telling me where to look for format changes? Note that I do not have access to tools like JDeveloper and decided is that we cannot customize/add/substitute VOs.
CompetenciesCO and AssessmentsAM are the Controller and Application module involved using VO CompetenceElementsVO. (I try to insert a date value in Attribute2).