VALUE_FORMAT is an optional 30-character alphanumeric field that controls the display format of the field, within the application.

For Numeric Fields, the following characters may be used
||Char||Location||Meaning  
|0  |in the Number      | Digit  
|#  |in the Number      | Digit, zero shows as absent  
|.  |in the Number      | Decimal separator or monetary decimal separator  
|-  |in the Number      | Minus sign  
|,  |in the Number       | Grouping separator  
|;  |Subpattern boundary|Separates positive and negative subpatterns  
|%  |Prefix or suffix   | Multiply by 100 and show as percentage  
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||Input|| Format|| Output ||
|123456.789| ###,###.### |123,456.789|	The pound sign (#) denotes a digit, the comma is a placeholder for the grouping separator, and the period is a placeholder for the decimal separator. 
|123456.789| ###.## |23456.79	|The value has three digits to the right of the decimal point, but the pattern has only two. The format method handles this by rounding up. 
|123.78|000000.000| 00123.780 |The pattern specifies leading and trailing zeros, because the 0 character is used instead of the pound sign (#). 
|12345.67| $###,###.### |$12,345.67	|The first character in the pattern is the dollar sign ($). Note that it immediately precedes the left most digit in the formatted output. 
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For Date fields, the following characters may be used (case is very important here, the wrong case will give invalid results or errors)
||Letter||Component||Examples  
|y      |Year      | yy  or yyyy gives 96 or 1996
|M      |Month     | MM will give a 2 digit month, more than 2 M's will give a text name (MMM = Jul) Note:mm is minutes
|w *    |Week in year  | ww would return a number from 01-53  
|W *    |Week in Month |  W would return a number from 1-5  
|D *    |Day in year   |  DDD would give the day of the year (001-366)  
|d *    |Day in month  |  dd would give the day of the month (01-31)  
|F      |Day of week in month | F would  give a number from 1-7
|EEE   |Day       | Used to display different formats for the Day of the Week\\E = 2 (single digit day of week)\\ EE = 02 (two-digit day of week) \\EEE = Tue (3-letter abbreviation of the literal representation of the day of week)\\ EEEE = Tuesday (full day of week name)  
~* Format characters indicated show the minimum number of digits to be shown.  For example,  If the Day of the Year is 6, a format of D would give "6", but DD would give "06" and DDD would give "006"

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Time values may be formatted as 
||h      ||Hour      || h or hh gives 1 or 01
|mm     |Minute    |
|ss     |Seconds   |
|a      |AM/PM     |


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