Change pattern of date

[Former Community Member]

Dear experts,

we would like to give our users the possibility to change the displayed pattern of a date field in our forms by themselves, because this form will be used worldwide.

Is there a way to change the display and edit pattern of a date field by using JavaScript?

Thanks!

[Mandy_Wiesener]

You could put a radiobuttonlist on top of the first page, for example with three radiobutton (1x EUR; 1x SFR; 1xUSD)

In the binding of the radiobuttonlist (to find about "Object" | "Binding") you change the standardbinding (0; 1; 2) to

0 --> de_DE

1 --> de_CH

2 --> en_US

And then use the following script in the change-Event of the radiobuttonlist:

function setLocale(vNode, vLocale) {

    if (vNode.className === "field") {

        vNode.locale = vLocale;

    }

    for (var i = 0; i < vNode.nodes.length; i++) {

        setLocale(vNode.nodes.item(i), vLocale);

    }

}

setLocale(xfa.form, this.rawValue);

More local settings for other countries you will find in F1-Help.  All fields in the pdf (date, currency) will be changend to the local pattern.

I must confess that the scipt is by another forum, but I will hope it will help you,

Mandy