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Field formats: Hijri or Gregorian, time, yes/no and lists

Press a field’s chip and choose how it prints: a date in the calendar and style you want, time in 12- or 24-hour format, yes/no as a checkbox, and multi-select as a list.

5 minUpdated Oct 27, 2026

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Steps

Press the field’s chip in the editor.

Choose the format from the list.

The preview shows the value in the new format.

Save the template.

Date

Option

Values

Calendar

Gregorian, Hijri (Umm al-Qura), or both together: Gregorian – Hijri

Style

Numbers, with the month name, with the day name, or ISO

Era

With “AD/AH”, or without

That’s 24 combinations. They work on the date fields of the unit itself and on today_date. The language of month names follows the document’s direction: Arabic in an Arabic document, and English in any other. Numbers are always Western digits.

Time, and date and time

Format

Example

24-hour time

14:05

12-hour time

2:05 م or 2:05 PM

Date and time

The date in any style above, then the time in 12- or 24-hour format

Time prints in the time zone in your profile, which is the same time zone the record shows times in. See Edit your profile, language, time zone and calendar.

Yes/no

Format

Prints

Checkbox

☑ or ☐. A field that isn’t set prints ☐

Yes/no

“Yes” or “No” (“نعم“/“لا” in an Arabic document). A field that isn’t set doesn’t print, so the fallback text shows

Multi-select as a list

Print it as

Prints

Comma-separated (the default)

Design, Branding, Website

Bulleted list

Each option on its own line, with a bullet

Numbered list

Each option on its own line, with a number

The list option is available for the unit’s own multi-select, tag and lead source fields. It isn’t available for a field from a linked record.

If something goes wrong

What you see

Why

What to do

The format doesn’t show in the list

The field is from a linked record, or its type doesn’t support formatting.

Use a field from the unit itself, or a lookup field that copies the value.

The time is off by some hours

The time zone in your profile is wrong.

Correct it: see Edit your profile, language, time zone and calendar.

A real example

Shield Security Co.

The situation

Government bodies ask for the Hijri date, and the client wants the Gregorian one.

What they did

The “Contract start date” field in both formats together, with the month name and the era.
The “Includes spare parts” yes/no field formatted as a checkbox.
The “Services” multi-select field as a numbered list.

The result

“1 March 2026 AD – 11 Ramadan 1447 AH” on one line, with the services numbered below it.

A made-up company, to show the idea. The numbers are rounded.