Display Format (Global Variable)

Specify a display format for the global variable, which can be used to format the data for display or string substitution.

Value Description

Value	Description
ModeledFieldLayout	Reference to a modeled field layout. For example: `@LIB::TELCODE`
`DIS(`Format`)`	Shorthand code for display format For example: `DIS(dd-MMM-yyyy)`
`DIS ($NLS (`NlsFormat`))`	Shorthand code for NLS display format; applicable only to Numeric, Float, Date, Time, or Datetime By default, if $NLS_LOCALE is specified in the assignment file, or in ProcScript (using $nlslocale and $webinfo("locale")), the language and styling conventions of the locale are applied. You can override this default behavior using `$NLS(`NlsFormat`)`. For more information, see NLS Display Formats.

ModeledFieldLayout

Reference to a modeled field layout.

For example: @LIB::TELCODE

DIS(Format)

Shorthand code for display format

For example: DIS(dd-MMM-yyyy)

DIS ($NLS (NlsFormat))

Shorthand code for NLS display format; applicable only to Numeric, Float, Date, Time, or Datetime

By default, if $NLS_LOCALE is specified in the assignment file, or in ProcScript (using $nlslocale and $webinfo("locale")), the language and styling conventions of the locale are applied. You can override this default behavior using $NLS(NlsFormat).

For more information, see NLS Display Formats.

Description

For Numeric, Float, Date, Time, or Datetime, you can select a predefined display format. Some data types, such as String and Raw Data, have no predefined display formats.

The available display formats depend on the data type. For more information, see:

Note: It is possible to create modeled field layouts to define named and customized display formats.

Applies to

Global Variable