SharePoint list date friendly format
In the previous article, I have explained everything about Person or Group column type in SharePoint lists. We have seen the different behavior of the column in Lists. Now in this article, I will be explaining Date and Time Column type in detail. In this article, I am going to cover the following topics in detail.
Background While managing the metadata of the document or any content, it is always very important to know and track when the document or content was created and when it was created and by whom it was created. For tracking the user who created and modified the contents, we have Person or Group columns. In the same way for tracking when the document was created and when the document was last modified there is a Date and Time column type available. Lets explore this column types in detail in this article. Introduction to Date and Time column type Date and Time column type is a very special column type in SharePoint. This column type is used to store the data in the format of date and time. This column type can be used to store the date of birth, date of joining, due date for any tasks, expiry date for any announcements and many such data which includes dates or time. This column type can be used to store only dates or date and time together. There is no such facility available by which we can store only time values. Creating Date and Time column type You can refer tothis articleto know how to create a column in many ways, you can select any way and while creating date and time column just select the Date and Time radio button as shown in figure. Once you select the Date and Time Option while creating a column, you will observe that many options are now available to configure this column. Properties of Date and Time column type There are several properties available using which we can configure the Date and Time columns. The properties are.
Also note that when we create a Date and Time column and try to input the values into it, it will provide a date and time picker control using which we can enter the date and time values to the columns. The default date and time picker looks like this: Summary So in this article we have explored the SharePoint Date and Time column types available in SharePoint list. In the next article I am going to cover Look Up column types in SharePoint lists.
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