Text Properties -  Datasource  Set to Date

Selecting Date as the datasource for text will cause the interface to change as follows.

The text object will display a date according to the format you specify.

Format - Select the format of the date

Pattern - The pattern of the date format. You can customize the date format by clicking the Customize check box.

The valid patterns for the date format are as follows

• d - day of the month in 1 digit, e.g. 7
• dd - day of the month in 2 digits, e.g. 07
• ddd - day of the week spelled out in 3 letters, e.g Mon
• dddd - day of the week spelled out completely, e.g. Monday
• M - 1 digit month, e.g. 9
• MM - 2 digit month , e.g. 09
• MMM - month in 3 letters, e.g. Sep
• MMMM - month spelled out completely, e.g. September
• y - 1 digit year, e.g. 5
• yy - 2 digit year, e.g. 05
• yyyy - 4 digit year e.g 2005

For example, the pattern MMMM dd,yy will generate a date as  December 08,04

Date - select the display date, which can be

• Today - Today's Date
• Today Plus - Today's Date plus a few days, months or years
• Today Minus - Today's Date minus a few days, months or years

Field Name - name of the input field. This variable name can be used in the Linked Field feature. For example, you can have two fields, one is Serial Number, the other, Part Number. This two fields are given the field names serial and part. In the Linked Field feature, the data of this two fields can be combined together to form a new field.