Admins can custom format dates in their Brightidea by enabling Date Formatting under System or Site Setup > Site > General Settings.
Note: When enabling Date Formatting, a format must be specified; if the field is left blank, Brightidea will display an empty date.
The format needs to be kept in the style of MM, DD, and YYYY.
The available format options include:
- DD-MM-YY
- DD-MM-YYYY
- MM-DD-YY
- MM-DD-YYYY
- YY-MM-DD
- YYYY-MM-DD
The custom date format change is reflected in most places, such as Submissions, Widgets, Idea Boards, and Setup area exports.
Important Notes:
- Not all areas in the Brightidea system support custom date formatting. Examples include back-end views such as Action Items, Lists, and Dashboards.
- The custom date format will be reflected after a month's duration. Prior to 30 days, the date history will reflect "__ days ago". Once 30 days have passed, date history will reflect the custom format within the Initiative.
- Date formatting is unique to each Initiative- To maintain uniform date formatting across the system, Admins must make identical changes to date formatting for Enterprise and ALL Initiatives.
Is there any way to include letters for the month vs numbers?
Hi Stephanie,
If you are referring to the display of the idea date, there is no functionality to change it to letter format at this time.
Thank you,
Brightidea Support
okay thanks