About Extension / Extended Attributes / Data Type

[Former Member]

Hi,

About Extension, Extended Attributes, Data Type

Data type

Specifies the form of the data to be held by the extended attribute. You can choose from: Date or Time - your local format as specified in your Windows regional settings Integer or Float - the appropriate local format.

• How do you define a format for Integer ? Example : Format : 0999. I would like save/display "0013" when user write "13".

• We want define Float with 5 digits after the dot. Example : 123.12345

To do this I must click Control Panel on my Windows, click Clock, Language, and Region, and then clicking Region and Language and modify the decimal number from 2 to 5 on my desktop PC. All users Desktop PC must also set to 5 digits. Otherwise if an user modify data the number digits will be lost.

• My Time format under Windows is :

• Short Time HH:MI 
• Long Time : HH:MI:SS

How select Short Time in PowerDesigner ?

• My Date format under Windows is :

• Short Date : YYYY-MM-DD
• Long Date : DD-MONTH-YEAR

How can I select each one ?

Thank you,

[marc_ledier]

Hi Benoit,

You can't currently format exa display.

But you can create a computed string extended attribute that will mimic the value with desired format.

You then hide the original and display the computed (with get/set methods).

Note : To hide an extended attribute, add it in a DialogBox custom form.

Regards,

Marc