Date Format

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Susie,
If all your users use MM/DD/YYYY then you may as well change WF-BATCH to use that format as well.
In any case all date fields are technically held as YYYYMMDD regardless of user formats.  When passing date fields between function modules, programs, etc. technical format is usually used.   User formats is only a problem if your background method/function module uses batch input.  In which case you are better off changing your function module to accept the date in the usual technical format and then use the ABAP statement "WRITE datefield TO screenfield MM/DD/YYYY." to put it into the appropriate format.
Jocelyn Dart
 
-----Original Message-----
From: ASSY, SOSTHENE [mailto:s.assy at afdb.org]
Sent: Monday,9 June 2003 1:02 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Date Format
 
 
You can read user profile using table USR01.
You can format the date according to the user profile.
THis is an example. In your method, write ABAP code to retrive user profile.
 
Don't hesitate if you need help
 
FORM CONVERT-DATE.
 
  SELECT SINGLE * FROM USR01 WHERE BNAME = SY-UNAME.
  CASE USR01-DATFM.
   WHEN '1' OR '2' OR '3'.   "JJ.MM.AAAA
     WA_JJ    = SY-DATUM(2).
     WA_MM    = SY-DATUM+2(2).
     WA_AAAA  = SY-DATUM+4(4).
   WHEN '4' OR '5' OR '6'.  " AAAA.MM.JJ
      WA_JJ    = SY-DATUM+6(2).
      WA_MM    = SY-DATUM+4(2).
      WA_AAAA  = SY-DATUM(4).
     ENDCASE.
ENDFORM.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Norris, Susie [mailto:Susie.Norris at sabre-holdings.com]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 8:28 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Date Format
 
 
                Dear Workflow-ers,
 
                We are using SAP version 46.c.  We trigger workflows from
SAP system status changes on  Project System network activities. One of our
custom WS  tasks uses a method/function module to retrieve a date field  and
return the date field to the task and workflow container and then on to a
second task.  The date field is defined as a date field from a SAP table.
The second task displays the date field  in the text title of the user's
SAP inbox message. The date format appears in the format DD.MM.YYYY.
                WF-Batch is user type system and date format of DD.MM.YYYY.
The user profile defaults involved in the WF are set to date format
MM/DD/YYYY.  To get the date to display in the MM/DD/YYYY format we had to
change the date field to a char 10 field and move subsets of the date field
into the char 10 field.
                Is there a WF configuration parameter that controls the date
display in the SAP inbox title or a better way to accomplish the date
format?
                Thanks,
                Susie
 
 
 
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