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How can I use Formatting Values, Dates, and Time in Business Central? (Example)

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Posted on by Sujan Khadka 80

I saw the documentation of fomatting values, dates and time is business central. But couldn't understand it. Is there sample example to this?

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  • JAngle Profile Picture
    JAngle 46 on at
    RE: How can I use Formatting Values, Dates, and Time in Business Central? (Example)

    How adaptable is the first one? As in can you just have the expression text for month and year?

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    YUN ZHU 75,595 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: How can I use Formatting Values, Dates, and Time in Business Central? (Example)

    Hi, I am sure you have read the link below.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-format-property

    Just some example, hope helps.

    Date:

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    DateTime:
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    Boolean
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    Hope these can give you some hints.
    Thanks.
    ZHU
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    Stefano Demiliani Profile Picture
    Stefano Demiliani 37,162 Most Valuable Professional on at
    RE: How can I use Formatting Values, Dates, and Time in Business Central? (Example)

    Question is not cleat but to format date you have different possibilities. I suggest to check for the following functions:

    Date2DMY()

    DT2Date()

    DT2Time()

    DMY2Date()

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