System Preferences - Regional Date Formats

This article will go over how to access and edit your regional date formats.  

This section allows the admin user to be able to change how dates appear in the system. This will also affect the default format for dates that are used in merge fields. 

NOTE: You may not see some of these options in your Actionstep system. If you would like to see these settings, please contact Support and ask for the plug-in to be enabled

NOTE: There are some exceptions where the date formats in Actionstep are still hard-coded and will not be affected by the following format options

 

Accessing the Regional Date Format Options

1. Click on Admin.
2. Select the General Settings tile.
3. Scroll down to the Regional date formats section.
4. Click Save after making any changes.

Here you will find the following settings:

Setting	Description
User input date format	This will set the date format that users are expected to enter dates when typing them. The main purpose of this is to differentiate if the date will be entered in American date format (Month / Date / Year) or European format (Date / Month / Year). This field will be used in most parts of the system such as enter a date on a custom data field. The second ‘User input date’ field that you will see below is use in older forms in Actionstep, such as older reports like the Multi Matter Profitability report.
User input date format	This will set the date format that users are expected to enter dates when typing them. The main purpose of this is to differentiate if the date will be entered in American date format (Month / Date / Year) or European format (Date / Month / Year). There are two fields in this section with this name. This field will be used in older forms in Actionstep, such as older reports like the Multi Matter Profitability report.
Short style date format	This controls how dates will appear when they are in their short format. (ie. 5 Jan 2013)
Long style date format	This controls how the date will be formatted when the date appears in a long format. (ie. Wednesday, 5th January 2013)
Merge field date format	Controls how dates will be formatted when used in a merge field. Note, that using the merge field option |fm=… can alter the format of a date in a merge field.
First day of the week	This sets what the first day of the week will appear as in calendar and in the date select widget. (normally Sunday or Monday)
Report page size	Select the page size you want to use for PDF reports.

NOTE: The date fields above will use PHP formats for dates. For example ‘%d’ will display the day of the month as two digits “01” to “31”.