Standard Date Format @ L.V. Expertise X3

This variable is used to define a date format (by specifying the order of the day, month, year fields as well as the number of characters used in each). This format is used when a client workstation is connected (the regional parameters of Windows are used for this), but it is only used when a date must be written in a log file on the server during the execution of a batch task.

Level of localization / Global variable

The parameter is defined at the level Folder.Belongs to Module SUP (Supervisor) and to Group FMT (Formats),in which the following parameters can also be found :

CPYMAXLEN (Max size of company codes)
CPYMINLEN (Min size of company codes)
DATBO (Date format)
DECRCU (No. decimals currency rate)
FCYMAXLEN (Max size of site codes)
FCYMINLEN (Min size of site codes)
FMTJOU (Month - day format)
FMTMOI (Month - year format)
FMTSTA (Format statistical columns)
NUMCSV (No. formatting in CSV)
RQTFMT (Export format)
RQTSEP (Export separator)

A variable named GFMDAT contains the format in the form of a character string (the FMTDAT parameter is of type local menu, because filtering is carried out on the possible choices for its value).

Linked parameters

The following parameters are linked to the parameter FMTDAT :

Supervisor

FMTJOU (defined at level Folder) : Month - day format

FMTMOI (defined at level Folder) : Month - year format

Functions concerned

Essentially the generation of the log files in the software (it is in principal found in the TRA sub-directory of the folder, on the application server).