User Preferences

Role of this Activity in application creation life cycle

The role of this activity is to define user preferences at user level.

What the activity comprises

This activity comprises setting digit format, time format and date format

Working with the screen

This activity is available under the Security component.
After launching the screen, In digit formatting block, following have to be specified:

Digit Format, Digit Grouping Symbol, Decimal Separator, Negative Number Format

In Time formatting block, following have to be specified:

Time format [12 h/24 h], time separator, hour style, minute style, seconds style, Hour symbol [AM/PM]

In Date formatting block, following have to be specified:

Date format, date separator, day style, month style

And finally the error message display style to checked, if errors are to be displayed in dialog box.
Preview button at each of the blocks or at the bottom of the screen can be used to preview the number/time/date formats.

Description of the fields in the screen

This screen has the following fields:

Decimal Separator	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 1 Character
Digit grouping symbol	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 1 Character
Digit grouping format	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 15 Chars
Negative No. format	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 15 Chars
Time Format	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 15 Chars
Time Separator	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 1 Character
Hour Style	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 3 Character
Minute Style	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 3 Character
Seconds Style	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 3 Character
Time Symbol AM	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 3 Character
Time Symbol PM	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 3 Character
Date Format	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 15 Character
Date Separator	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 1 Character
Day style	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 3 Character
Month Style	Alphanumeric Field; Length – 3 Character

Tasks that can carried be out with this screen

Fetch All User Preferences.
Update All User Preferences.