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Easy Web Development with WaveMaker
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The graphical tooling provided by Studio for formatting handles the proverbial 80 percent of situations with relative ease. Got a grid column that has currency values such as a price? In the Grid Designer section, set the value of the Format dropdown to Currency. The editors for Currency Type, Digits, and Round are then made available for configuration:

Unlike dates and numbers, monetary values rarely should be localized. Currency Type should be specified to avoid any potential localization of monetary values.
Setting a value for the label's Format dropdown to DateTime adds editors for options including data and time patterns in a similar manner. Of particular interest is a checkbox for useLocalTime:

If the component is sending/receiving date and/or time values to the server that could have been written or could be read by clients in other time zones, useLocalTime handles time zone conversions for you. Users will see points in time as dates and time using the time...
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