Livecycle

To specify a display pattern

At run time, LiveCycle Designer ES displays date, time, and numeric field values in locale-sensitive format. If you want to display a field value in a format other than the default, you can specify the custom pattern by clicking the Patterns button on the Field tab.

Note:

Drop-down lists support custom user entries, but a display pattern for custom user entries cannot be specified. You can write a script to format the user input if required.

Because the display pattern describes how data will be displayed in the form, all default values, user-entered values, and values retrieved from a database are converted to the format described by the display pattern.

Note:

Dates earlier than January 1, 1900 are not formatted by the display pattern.

1.	Select the date/time field, numeric field, or text field.

2.	In the Object palette, click the Field tab.

3.	Click Patterns and either select one of the predefined display patterns from the Select Type list or type a custom pattern in the Pattern box.

See also 

About field patterns and value formatting

Defaults for value formatting

Simple patterns

To specify a display pattern