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ESS services date and time format?

Former Member
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Hi,

How can we change the date and time format displayed on some of the ESS services like addresses, LR screen? Currently I see US format date MM/DD/YYYY and time is in european format 12,50 instead of dot(.).

I tried changing the browser setting to UK but it didn't work. Any other suggestion please?

Thanks

Praveen

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siddharthrajora
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Product and Topic Expert
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What is

IE Settings language as

Personalisation of the user, WHich language is set?

Former Member
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SU01 default tab has correct date format and time zone.

I checked and there is nothing at the iView properties to set the date and time settings.

User, portal and ECC systems are all located in the same region.

In the portal personalise for a user, I see in the general information tab the language is "EN", when I try to change it to English(united kingdom), I get error that I cannot change due to security error. I'll check with security team to see if I can change this and get it working. But however, I want to change it at global level at at user level.

IE setting are set to UK english from US english, but no luck.

I have checked at one of the ESS DC that I'm customising there is a property file with JCo connection details, one of the attribute "master language" is set to "en", but again I don't think we have to go to this level to change at DC level for date formatting. Please let me know.

Thanks

Praveen

Former Member
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I tried to create a simple WD application with just date control UI element, I can see the date format is displayed based on my browser setting. If I change it to US in my browser locale, it date format changes to US date format, if I change it to UK locale the date format is UK based.

Only my ESS/MSS applications are always displayed as US format. I checked at the iView level and I can only see ForcedRequestLanguage but I cannot see ForcedRequestCountry property so I'm unable to set any country specific details here. When I look at the JCo connection language tab, I see the

Current locale: en

Default VM locale: en_US

I think this is where change is required. However I changed following JCo languages from en to en_UK but still no luck

SAP_R3_HumanResources

SAP_R3_HumanResources_MetaData

Backend is checked as posted above.

I checked below which is the second precendence in determining locale

Portal mandatory locale -- open file prtDefault.properties on server under

/usr/sap/<SID>/JC#/j2ee/cluster/server#/apps/sap.com/irj/servlet_jsp/irj/root/web-inf/portal/system/properties/

I cannot find below mandatory parameters in the prtDefault.properties file

request.mandatorylanguage

request.mandatorycountry

However, I found this

request.defaultlanguage=en

request.defaultcountry=us

Is this something I can change? Or should I replace or should I add mandatoryLanguage/country?

Can this file be edited through NWA or should this file be edited manually at the file system level?

Please advice.

Thanks

Praveen

Edited by: Praveen11 on Aug 20, 2009 8:38 AM

Edited by: Praveen11 on Aug 20, 2009 8:41 AM

Former Member
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Issue resolved by changing the file as I mentioned in my above post.

I also found another thread with similiar issue got resolved.

/thread/207150 [original link is broken]

Thanks

Praveen

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stuart_campbell
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Hi Praveen

Glad to hear you resolved the issue

I was looking at any potential ESS and MSS application or configuration related reasons for the issue

It looks like the problem needed more knowledge of Enterprise Portal technology platform

Best wishes

Stuart

stuart_campbell
Active Contributor
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Hi Praveen

In SU01 does the user associated with this employee have the correct date format settings

Can you also check the iview properties to see if there is any setting which might force this date and time setting

Where is the user located, where is the Portal server and ECC system located? - are the system times and locales for all three systems correct?

Best regards

Stuart

siddharthrajora
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language for jco connections should always be set as BLANK. Try to set it as blank

read more on help.sap.com

Former Member
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I have setted language to BLANK and try no luck. I have also tried en_UK still no luck.

Any other place that I can go and change this config?

Thanks

Praveen

Former Member
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Hi,

go to your portal and go to jco maintanance there check the language that you have used to connect please.

Can you please reconfirm if your browser langauge is English UK

tools->internet options ->languages ->English (United Kingdom)in the UME

Former Member
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Thanks. I found that in the JCo connection for all ESS applications under language it's "en" and it's not country specific. How do I change this?

I have changed my browser language settings from en_us to en_uk but no effect for calendar date format.

Please let me know how can I change the JCo connection language setting from en to en_uk?

I have followed the note that Siddharth mentioned and also found that resource bundle for en_uk is available.

Thanks

Praveen

siddharthrajora
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http://help.sap.

com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/49/e607426338da6fe10000000a1550b0/

frameset.htm

Please have a look at the Note 947081, Now on a broader level

this can be achieved by the Note mentioned above.

The decimal separators, comma and decimal point are dependent on the

locale of the browser(i.e user logon language).

If the logon language is English then the separator is decimal point. So

if you enter 3.5 then it will remain as 3.5 itself.

if you enter 3,5 then it will be converted to 35.

If the logon language is German then the separator is comma. So

if you enter 3,5 then it will remain as 3,5 itself.

if you enter 3.5 then it will be converted to 35.

So the conclusion is the decimal separator is dependent on the locale of

the browser.

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