Format Pattern dialog

This dialog appears when you set the Format Pattern Type property to be Customize or click to modify the Format Pattern property in the Modify Schema Properties screen of the XML Connection Wizard. It helps you to specify patterns to format the Date, Time or DateTime data in the XML schema. See the dialog.

The following are details about options in the dialog:

Pattern Fragments

Lists all the pattern fragments that are supported by JReport Designer.

Description

Displays the detail descriptions of the selected pattern fragment.

Adds a selected pattern fragment to the Pattern box.

Pattern

Specifies the pattern to format the Date, Time or DateTime data in the XML schema.

To specify a pattern, select a pattern fragment and click to add it to the Pattern box, or double-click a pattern fragment to add it to the Pattern box. You can add several fragments as you want and any character can be input manually between two pattern fragments as a delimiter. For more details about the patterns, see Appendix 1: Details of format patterns.

Result

Displays a sample of the current date and time using the patterns you defined in the Pattern box.

OK

Accepts the changes and closes the dialog.

Cancel

Does not retain the changes and closes the dialog.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.