You can specify how read-only dates or date and time combinations are displayed in your application. For example, you might specify that the year comes first, or that months are spelled out rather than represented numerically.

1. Click the control, and then click the View properties icon.

2. In the Read-Only Format section on the Presentation tab of the Properties panel, set the Type option to Date or Date/Time.

3. To specify the conditions under which characters entered by the user are displayed as bullets, use the Obfuscated when option.

   The input characters are initially added to the clipboard as unencrypted, cleartext values. The system computes the hashed value only when the page is committed to the PegaRULES database. Thereafter, the hashed value appears in both the clipboard and the database row.

4. From the Date-time format or Date format list (depending on your selection for the Type option), select the read-only format or select Custom and enter a valid format in the adjacent, unlabeled field.

5. Optional:

   To display times using the 24-hour time format, select the Support 24 hour format for time? option.

6. Optional:

   To display validation messages to users at run time, select the Show validation messages in read-only mode option.

7. Optional:

   Set advanced presentation options.

   Instead of creating a new custom format in the skin, you can adjust elements in a cell by applying Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) helper classes. For example, you can use a CSS helper class to center an element in a cell or to double the standard right margin for the element.

   • Cell read-write classes – Click the Open helper class picker icon to specify one or more CSS helper classes to apply to this cell when the form is displayed in read-write mode. You can enter several helper classes, separated by a space. Alternatively, you can enter the name of a custom style to apply to this cell.
   • Cell read-only classes – Click the Open helper class picker icon to specify one or more CSS helper classes to apply to this cell when the form is displayed in read-only mode. You can enter several helper classes, separated by a space. Alternatively, you can enter the name of a custom style to apply to this cell.
   • Inline style (not for production use) – You can use this field to define an inline style by entering CSS code. However, entering an inline style results in a guardrail warning. For maintainability and reuse, the recommended approach is to use read-write or read-only classes.
   For more information, see CSShelper classes.

8. Click Submit.

• Date time (calendar) control

  To present a date, time, or both on a form, use the Date time control. You can modify the control features to improve user experience by making date and time selection simple and intuitive. For example, you can choose to display the calendar widget with spinners to make it easier to switch between months and years.

• Configuring the basic settings for a Date time control - a date or time

  Select a property for a Date time control to determine the dates and times that the application users can select. Set related options to specify the label, default value, helper text, and field visibility for the control.

• Specifying presentation options for a Date time control

  You can specify how read-only dates or date and time combinations are displayed in your application. For example, you might specify that the year comes first, or that months are spelled out rather than represented numerically.

• Selecting the date and time format and display mode

  You can specify which date and time element selectors are displayed on the form at run time. For example, you can display a calendar widget with a corresponding text input field or display drop-down fields for selecting the month, day, and year.

• Selecting spinners or drop-down fields for navigation

  You can specify whether your application users select dates and times with spinner controls or drop-down fields.

• Restricting the years displayed

  To make it easier for users to select valid dates, you can restrict the number of years that are displayed relative to, and including, the current date. At run time, only values that fall within the range of dates that you specify are visible on the calendar widget or available by using spinners or drop-down fields.

• Displaying week numbers in calendar widgets

  If users are accustomed to seeing week numbers in calendars, you can specify that the week numbers are displayed along the left side of the calendar widget in your application. The week numbers are shown according to the ISO 8601 standard date notation. Week numbers may vary, depending on locale.

• Disabling the selection of weekend days

  To make it easier for users to select valid dates, you can disable weekend dates so that users cannot select them in your application. Weekend (non-working) dates can be based on the user's calendar or on another business calendar.

• Setting intervals of minutes

  By default, the time picker displays minutes from 0 through 59. To restrict the time selections available to users, you can configure your application to display intervals of minutes on time controls, instead.

• Specify actions for a control

  You can specify action sets—event-action pairings—to determine the behavior of a control. For example, you might specify that clicking a button triggers the refresh of a section. You can define multiple events and actions in an action set, and you can create multiple action sets for a single control.

• Copying, moving, or deleting a control

  You can use basic Windows operations to speed the development of your controls.