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Last Updated: 02 Aug 2021 11:39 by ADMIN
Release 2.26.0
Avrohom Yisroel
Created on: 16 Sep 2020 06:36
Category: Scheduler
Type: Feature Request
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Header template or format string

I want to change what is shown in the scheduler headers, depending on my current culture, and on the view (different things for a week view and for a day view, for example).

 

7 comments
ADMIN
Marin Bratanov
Posted on: 17 Sep 2020 14:43

Hello,

The difference comes from default formats. In the web-based suites, the format designated in my previous post is used, you can also see it in the Kendo UI for jQuery suite, for example: https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/scheduler/localization. Whether the month or only the date is included is a matter of different design that has been chosen probably around a decade ago. The solution is a header template so you can choose what to render. Here are two examples:

 

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Marin Bratanov
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Avrohom Yisroel
Posted on: 17 Sep 2020 13:20

Well, all your other control suites manage it. I've been using the ones for web, WPF and WinForms, and all of them format correctly when I set the culture to en-GB. That's why I can't understand why this component doesn't. They don't use a single format for all cultures, they use one specific to each culture.

Best regards,
Avrohom Yisroel
ADMIN
Marin Bratanov
Posted on: 17 Sep 2020 08:29

Hello,

For such a "fix", the feature must be implemented first, because there is no single format string that can suit all cultures.

 

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Marin Bratanov
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Avrohom Yisroel
Posted on: 16 Sep 2020 18:05

Marin,

Whilst it would be nice to be able to control the format, the most important point is to fix the bug that makes it show the US format when the culture is UK. It should respect the application culture, which it doesn't right now. All other Telerik products I've used (a fair few) respect the application culture, and show dates in the appropriate format.

The ability to specify a more specific format would be great, but is less important than showing the right format in the first place.

Thanks

ADMIN
Marin Bratanov
Posted on: 16 Sep 2020 14:33

Hi,

There are many locales in the world in addition to the US and the UK, and so there are many users who expect the date first, and many users who expect the month first. Thus, there should be a feature that lets the developer control this so they can choose what suits their audience best. The built-in feature needs to also provide a format short enough to not expand the cells with narrow scheduler widths.

I understand that users in the UK find this confusing, this is why I mentioned it in my post explicitly, and you can click the Follow button on this page to get email notifications for status updates - when it is implemented and what release that will be in.

 

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Marin Bratanov
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Avrohom Yisroel
Posted on: 16 Sep 2020 13:27

Hello, thanks for the reply and sample project.

However, you are missing a fundamental point here. The UK culture does not use the M/dd format, that is the US format. In the UK, we exclusively use dd/M, eg 29/4 for the 29th Apr.

That is my whole point, UK users will not want to see dates in a US format. Furthermore, for dates where both day and month are less than 12, eg for the first week in Jan-Sep, the format is unclear, as UK user will expect 1/2 to mean the 1st Feb, whereas according to the way you have formatted it, the date is actually 2nd Jan.

This seems to be a bug in your software, presumably arising from the developer not knowing that the UK uses a different format from the US.

Thanks again, but is there any way this can be fixed?

ADMIN
Marin Bratanov
Posted on: 16 Sep 2020 06:39

I am attaching here a small localization sample that shows:

  • how the sting format the scheduler uses works (for a few cultures, including en-GB) - the format is TheDateTimeObject.ToString("ddd, M/dd") and in en-GB, for example, results in <day of week>, <month number>/<day of the month>  which may resemble a little a US format (which is the core of this request).
  • one way a culture chooser and localization can be implemented.

 

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Marin Bratanov
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