FDA - custom screen - how do I edit numeric and string data

[Cathy Wilbur]

I am using varialbes "EVNTDATE which is string and GDATE which is numeric. Both have a size of eight bytes. How do I edit the display filds. I tried to do the following but in each case it did not work.

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From FDA did the following
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1) Clicked on field
2) Clicked on Overrides
3) Clicked on Formating
4) Clicked on Formatting radio button
5) Selected Mask
6) Keyed XXXX/XX/XX for character and 9999/99/99 for numeric.

This did not work. Do I have to put all the formatting in the event rules code. If so then how do I code the formatting.

 

[Larry_Jones]

Cathy,

make it easy on yourself and use a DATE data type item to display your date fields. In your ER code convert to/from your other data type fields as needed.