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ramia1343
ramia1343
May 9, 2023
Question

Date language format

  • May 9, 2023
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Dears,

I have a problem in the calendar interface when the appian language is in ARABIC. The date shows and saves in Persian numbers such as : ١١٠٥٢٠٢٣. how can I keep the date language for all dates in English even though the user language still Arabic? the Persian numbers are causing me massive errors when I map them.

7 replies

stefanhelzle0001
stefanhelzle0001
Brainy
May 9, 2023

Appian stores date and datetime as a normal data type, independent of the chosen language. What kind of issues do you have when mapping, and what do you mean with "mapping"?

ramia1343
ramia1343Author
May 9, 2023

for example, when i run the function today(), it should return the date in english number. but appian return it in persian number because my user language is Arabic. this value is causing me errors when i pass it to an external webservice. do you have any suggestions?

stefanhelzle0001
stefanhelzle0001
Brainy
May 9, 2023

Appian has a UI representation layer which translates any internal value into the user selected localization. Appian does not store any value in the language it shows on screen.

Can you share a few details about that web service and how you implement that?

R
rachelg9844
May 11, 2023

To keep the date language in English while using the Arabic language in Appian, you can modify the date format settings in the Appian Admin Console.

Log in to the Appian Admin Console with administrator privileges.
Navigate to the "Localization" section.
Click on the "Date and Time Format" tab.
Scroll down to the "Date Formats" section and locate the "Calendar Date Format" field.
In the "Calendar Date Format" field, enter the following format: "MM/dd/yyyy".
Save the changes.
This should set the calendar date format to English regardless of the language selected in Appian.

Regards,

Rachel Gomez

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