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New ABAP Editor Date format

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:44:48 GMT

When using the new ABAP editor print feature there are formating options to print things like filename and current date. Current date displays in the European format of DD.MM.YYYY. I would like to change that to the American format of MM/DD/YYYY. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Also, as a bonus question, Is there a way to add parameters like User id?

Thanks,

Larry

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:46:40 GMT

Check

CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_DATE_TO_EXTERNAL'

CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_DATE_TO_INTERNAL'

Regards,

Santosh

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

raja_thangamani — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:53:32 GMT

Hi,

You need to change the User Profile.

Steps: goto Menu

System(You can access from Any SAP Tcode) -->user Profile --> Own Data --> Default(Tab).

Just set the format what ever you want. You no need to use FM.

Raja T

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

aaron_morden2 — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:54:47 GMT

Make sure that your default date format is set to MM/DD/YYYY.

From the Main menu bar goto System --> User Profile --> Own Data

Then click the defaults tab and choose your date format.

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:56:15 GMT

Larry,

Isn't the data format a parameter in the user profile. I think the default format for a user is set in the SU01, user pofile default values tab. change that and see if that reflects in the editor.

Regards,

Ravi

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Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:58:33 GMT

Santosh,

Maybe I did not make my question clear. The new ABAP code editor has a print feature which is different that the standard SAP print. It is only available in the new editor. The format of the printout is defined in the options dialog. You can specify the content header and footer. There are parameters like filename, page number and current date that can be placed in the header/footer. When I select the current date parameter, it prints out the date in Euorpeon format MM.DD.YYYY. I want it ti print out in American format MM/DD/YYYY.

My question is how do I do that?

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

RichHeilman — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:00:05 GMT

Is this driven by your user settings? Check it out.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:03:45 GMT

Everyone,

My date format for everything else in SAP is set to the the American format. I think this is exclusive to the New ABAP Editor. I know there are some configuration files somewhere that might contain these parameter definitions, but I am not sure where they are and how to change them.

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Larry Browning

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

raja_thangamani — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:06:08 GMT

Have you tried my solution:

<b>You need to change the User Profile.</b>

<b>Steps:</b> goto Menu

System(You can access from Any SAP Tcode) -->user Profile --> Own Data --> Default(Tab).

Just set the format what ever you want. You no need to use FM.

Raja T

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:06:37 GMT

Rich,

I don't think that the SAP user settings control this. I think it is something exclusive to the new editor.

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

aaron_morden2 — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:11:04 GMT

Please describe how you are getting to the screen to specify the content header and footer.

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:27:20 GMT

Aaron,

When using the new editor, click th small button in the bottom right corner of the editor window. This will take you to the options dialog box for the new editor. One of the things that can be configured is the print format. I have select the parameter Current date or %date% to appear in the footer of the printout. This date is then printed as DD.MM.YYYY.

I want to print as MM/DD/YYYY

I am pretty sure that this has nothing to do with the date format in the user profile. Mine has always been set to the American format, and I have no problems with that at all.

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:49:36 GMT

Raja,

My user profile has always been set to the American format and I have no problems with it at all. This problem only occurs when I print from the new code editor which was made available to us only a few weeks ago when the latest support packs were installed to the basis system. (ECC 5.0)

Re: New ABAP Editor Date format

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:38:03 GMT

Have I stumped the forum? Do I get points for that?