Setting the Header Date Formats
When viewing the service appointments on the scheduling board in a mode that displays the date, you can set the format of the date on the Service Parameters form. During setup, you can choose between predefined formats or a custom option. The custom option supports carriage returns, allowing the scheduling board to display the header multiple rows high.
Schedules
When the View mode is set to Partner/Days, Work Week, or Partner Day/Time on the Calendar Scheduling form, the header row shows a date.
The date format can be controlled by a parameter on the Service Schedule Parameters form.
You can choose from a list of pre-formatted values, or specify a custom format.
Scheduling Parameters
Use the Header Date Format field on the Service Schedule Parameters form to specify user-defined date headers. The lowercase d represents the day, the uppercase M represents the month, and lowercase y represents the year.
Use this syntax when you create a custom date format:
- Lower case d represents
the day.
- d: Shows the numeric day with no leading zeros.
- dd: Shows the numeric day padding single digit values with a leading zero.
- ddd: Shows the abbreviated day of the week.
- dddd: Shows the full alphabetic day of the week.
- Upper case M represents
the month:
- M: Shows the numeric month value with no leading zeros.
- MM: Shows the numeric month value with leading zeros.
- MMM: Shows the first three alphabetic characters of the month.
- MMMM: Shows the full alphabetic name of the month.
- Lowercase y represents the
year:
- y or yy: Shows the decade portion of the year.
- yyy or yyyy: Shows the full numeric year value.
To have stack date information within the same header cell, press Enter when setting up the custom syntax. Literal values, such as slashes (/), colons (:), and semi-colons (;), can be used as separators.
The custom date format obeys the standard and custom Microsoft format syntax for Date/Time fields. For more details on this topic, see the online Microsoft MSDN library.
This example of custom syntax displays January 1, 2013:
Custom Syntax | Display |
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MMM ddd d yyyy |
Jan Fri 1 2013 |