Hotfix for Regional Settings for workspaces created from ConneX (Atlas 5.1 and 5.2)

We discovered a bug where the Regional Settings were not correctly applied to workspaces created from ConneX - instead all workspaces were created as if using UK regional settings.

A hotfix is available for Atlas 5.1 and 5.2 to resolve this issue, so if you installed one of these versions prior to March 15th 2024 you should contact your CSM or raise a support ticket to get the hotfix. If you installed later the hotfix is included already.

If your workspaces are correctly using the UK regional settings there is no urgent need to take the hotfix.

In this article:

• Custom ConneX templates
• Atlas OOTB Templates
  • Time Zones
  • Set default regional settings
• Examples for specific regions
  
  

Custom ConneX templates

As part of this hotfix, ConneX templates created by your organisation will store the Regional Settings and the Time Zone from the source site settings and apply those to all workspaces created from this specific template. This means you can have multiple templates with different Regional Settings and Time Zones to support different regions. Previously this was erroneously hard-coded to use UK settings for both.

Atlas OOTB Templates

Once you have the hotfix the OOTB Atlas templates will behave slightly differently to custom templates. Since you cannot modify the source site to change the settings we make them available elsewhere.

Time Zones

You may notice that the options in the next section do not include the Time Zone. This is because the default Time Zone for the default Atlas templates is set within the SharePoint Admin Centre. As a SharePoint Admin, go to the SharePoint Admin centre, choose Settings on the left, open the Site creation item and set the desired Time Zone in the panel that appears. Click Save to apply the change.

Set default regional settings

You can set the other Regional Settings for ConneX using an Atlas Tenant Property. To see how to access and edit tenant properties please read the following article: Manage Tenant Properties for Atlas

With access to the Tenant Properties, type "region" into the search bar to isolate the specific property we need to change - Atlas.ConneX.RegionalSettings:

Select this property, then click Edit at the top of the list. A panel will open on the right with the "code" that defines the settings. There are a number of settings in this code because it includes all setting from the SharePoint Site regional settings screen. These properties are:

• Locale ID (look yours up here)
• Collation ("Sort order" in SP Regional Settings) (look yours up here)
• Calendar (look yours up here)
• 24 hour time ("true" or "false")
• First day of the week (0 to 6; 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, 6 = Saturday) (reference)
• Work Days (represented as a binary value - reference)
• Alternate Calendar (same set of values as "Calendar" - reference)
• Work Day Start Hour (represented as "minutes from midnight" so 60 = 1am - reference)
• Work Day End Hour (same as Start Hour).

Note: By default this is using settings for the United Kingdom in English.