ADF Basics : Selecting and showing time-stamp in ADF Faces using af:inputDate & af:convertDateTime

Hello All
This post is about a very common & basic requirement of developers ,
how to show & select time with date in ADF Faces ?
We use af:inputDate to show and select Date & Timestamp type of attributes, by default it looks like this

ADF provides a default converter (af:convertDateTime) to format date & timestamp field, we can define a pattern to change it's format & to show time selector in calendar box



Suppose pattern is- dd-MMM-yyy HH:mm:ss , now see there is a hour/minute/second selector appears in calendar box

you can change this pattern as per your format , suppose you want to show AM or PM after time just use dd-MMM-yyy HH:mm:ss a

see xml source of af:inputDate-

<af:inputDate label="Label 1" id="id1" contentStyle="width:250px;padding:5px;">
                        <af:convertDateTime pattern="dd-MMM-yyy HH:mm:ss a"/>
                    </af:inputDate>

this is how we can change format of Date & Timestamp - Cheers :-)

Changing af:convertNumber Format according to Locale- Oracle ADF

Simple post with very simple application-

we can covert a Numeric field format according to standard locale in ADF Faces.

when we have a numeric field on page there is a converter inside it, called af:convertNumber is extension of the standard JSF javax.faces.convert.NumberConverter.

 user can change it for Integer digits , fraction digits etc. but here i am talking about format of Number(Amount), to do this follow these steps.

• Change GroupingUsed to true, by default it is true
• Now set Locale, you can do this using managed bean or simply write it here
• Managed Bean code to create Locale-  private Locale format=Locale.ENGLISH;
• Now see various formats of Amount using Locale-

Using en-US-

 Using fr-

 Using hi-IN-for Hindi fonts

 Using de-DE -

so this is the thing how you can change formatting , this can also be done by managed bean.

• Create a variable of type Locale and its getter -setter
• Use it in Locale field of af:convertNumber  



    public void chinaButton(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        this.setFormat(Locale.CHINA);
    }
    public void frenchButton(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        this.setFormat(Locale.FRENCH);
    }

    public void italianButton(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        this.setFormat(Locale.ITALIAN);
    }



• You can also set Max and Min fraction digits in af:convertNumber