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Decimal Separator:Setthedecimalseparatorforanumericalvalue.
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Thousand Separator:Setthethousandseparatorforanumericalvalue.
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Currency Sign:Setthecurrencysignforacurrencyvalue.
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Treat empty as 0:Anumericalemptyvalueistreatedasa0value.
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Date/Time Format:Setthedateformatforadatevalue.
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Automatic:Selectthisoptiontoparsedatesautomatically,withoutspecifyingaformat.
ThisisthedefaultsettingfornewDatefields.
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ISO8601:Thissettingallowsfordateswithdifferenttimestampformats,orbelongingtodif-
ferenttimezones,tobeparsedinsideasinglejob.Datesthatdonotincludeaspecifictime
areautomaticallyconsideredtousethecurrentlocale'stimezone.
SelecttheISOtemplatetobeusedwhenparsingthetimestamp.OtherISO8601formats
canbehandledviatheCustomoption.
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Custom:Setacustomdateformat.ForthemarkersavailableintheDataMappersee
"Date"onpage278.
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Date Language:Setthelanguageforadatevalue(ex:IfEnglishisselected,thetermMaywill
beidentifiedasthemonthofMay).
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Use offset from UTC:Selectthedefaulttimezone,whichistobeusedtoextractanytimestamp
thatdoesnotalreadyincludetimezoneinformationwiththetime.
IntheDataModel,time stampscanbe:
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Displayed in Local Time:Thetimeisformattedinaccordancewiththecurrentoperatingsys-
tem'sregionalsettings.
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Displayed as UTC/ISO:ThetimeisdisplayedinUTC(CoordinatedUniversalTime)following
ISO8601.
NotethatthissettingonlyimpactshowdatesaredisplayedintheDataModel.Itdoesnotchangehow
datesarestoredintheConnectdatabase,norhowtheyaredisplayedinatemplate.
TheDataMapperpreferencesalsoprovidesyouwithbuttonsto:
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Restore Defaults.ThisoptionrestoresthepreferencestoDefaults.Thisappliestothecurrent
Preferencespageonly,butnototherPreferences.
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Apply:ThisoptionappliesthesettingsmadewithinthecurrentPreferencespage,butdoesnot
closethePreferencesdialog.
Database Connection preferences
DialogusedtochangethePlanetPressConnectback-endDatabase.
Thisdialogsupportstheswappingoftheback-enddatabasebetweenvariousvendordatabases.Note,
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