Who is this article for?

Administrators who want to learn to enable the checkbox.

Access to the application server is required.

The "Display local date/time" feature allows users in the web client to see all date and time fields in their device's local time zone instead of the server's time zone.

This article explains how to enable this feature if the checkbox is not visible in your web client (version 7.6 and later).

1. Issue

After upgrading (for example, to version 7.8), the "Display local date/time" checkbox may be missing from the top of list views in web client modules such as Documents, Audits, or Incidents.

2. Cause and solution

This feature is not a user-level setting but an application-wide setting controlled from the web.config file on the Q-Pulse application server. If the checkbox is missing, it is because the feature is set to "false" (disabled) in this file.

To resolve this, an administrator must edit the web.config file to enable the feature.

3. How to enable the feature

To enable the "Display local date/time" checkbox, follow these steps:

1. Connect to your Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse) application server.
2. Navigate to the root directory of the Q-Pulse web application, for example C:\inetpub\wwwroot\QPulse.
3. Create a backup of the web.config file before making any changes.
4. Open the web.config file using a text editor such as Notepad.
5. Search for the key EnableDisplayLocalDateTime.

6. Change the value from "false" to "true".
   
   Before:

   <add key="EnableDisplayLocalDateTime" value="false" />

   After:

   <add key="EnableDisplayLocalDateTime" value="true" />

7. Save and close the web.config file.
8. The change should apply immediately. You may need to ask users to refresh their browser cache or restart the application pool in IIS for the change to appear.

After enabling

Once the value is set to "true" and saved, users will see the "Display local date/time" checkbox at the top of relevant screens in the web client.

4. Further reading

• Ideagen Quality Management 7.6 Release Notes