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Formatting date in Dropdown

Last post 06-12-2012 02:10 PM by Hilary Stoupa. 2 replies.
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  • 06-12-2012 02:02 PM

    Formatting date in Dropdown

    I am trying to use a date column from a sharepoint list in a secondary data connection as part of cascading filtering criteria to allow users to pick an item based upon the date value. I cannot figure out how to get the drropdown control to dispaly just the date value, no matter what i try,it want to show the time (as 00:00:00). Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?

    TIA
    Dean

    Dean
    Charlotte, NC
  • 06-12-2012 02:07 PM In reply to

    Re: Formatting date in Dropdown

    I've seen tips about doing this in the view XSL - and have done some little tweaks in the view XSL for this type of thing before - not sure how comfortable you are saving your form as source files and working with those? You can modify the display in the XSL to use a formula to return a substring-after....

    Hilary Stoupa

  • 06-12-2012 02:10 PM In reply to

    Re: Formatting date in Dropdown

    I should add - you could also leverage qRules for this - use a secondary XML for your data source for the drop down, and copy the data off into it and format it - here's a sample that has a view where I do that....Check the rules in the drop down view.

    Hilary Stoupa

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