Wiki: VALUE

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

For Date fields, the following characters may be used

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
E	Day	Providing more than 4 Es would give full name (i.e Tuesdy)

* 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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