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Overview
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Overview
This example explains how to format the display of date columns without changing the actual data. This helps to keep the format consistent even if the format of the provided data is not. This can be enabled with To do this, configure the appropriate columns with the M column type for in the Column types parameter corresponding to the column. Advanced date sorting specifies how to use the M column type to customize how the column data is interpreted as a data. With an additional specification, the format of how the date must appear when viewed.Two date formats are needed to
In this page, two formats that support both interpreting the data and formatting the display (output) of the data are explained.
- Input format -
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- This is
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- the current format specified on the M column type
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- ; if nothing is specified, the default format is used. See Advanced date sorting for more details.
- Display format -
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- This is how you want the date to be displayed and sorted. If not specified, the column is displayed
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- in the same format as the input format. The display format is similar but, necessarily, more complex than the input format. The ~ character is used to
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- separate the input and display formats to avoid most conflicts with characters used in formats. This is summarized in the succeeding sections.
Examples
Column type | Input format | Display format |
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M~YYYY.MM.DD | <default> | YYYY.MM.DD |
MDDMMMYYYY~YYYY.MM.DD | DDMMMYYYY | YYYY.MM.DD |
M(de)DDMMMYYYY~YYYY.MM.DD | (de)DDMMMYYYY | YYYY.MM.DD |
| MX~DD.MM.YY | Unix timestamp | DD.MM.YY |
MDD MMM YYYY~YYYY.MM.DD | DD MMM YYYY Default Confluence Date Picker (US) | YYYY.MM.DD |
Usage
The formatting options listed on this page can be defined through the Column types parameter within the following macros:
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- Table Plus macroAttachment Table
- CSV (Comma Separated Values) macro
- JSON Table Macro
- Attachment Table macro
- SQL Macromacro
- SQL -query MacroFile macro
- SQL -file MacroQuery macro
- Excel macro
Screenshot
Formatting options
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Advanced date sorting support with the M column type is provided using Javascript implemented by the Table Library for Bob Swift Apps with the help of the Moment.js library (open source, MIT license). A summary of the relevant parts of the momentMoment.js documentation is repeated here. |
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