Hi,

We have a Adhoc report, which shows the columns based on user selection. For this I am just doing the print * to display the user selected columns and data coming from the stored procedure. The problem here is, when users choose date columns for the report, after generating the report user is not able to change the date column formats. It's alwys shown in Generic format and not allowing to customize it in the excel.
The output format of the report is xlsx. I also tried with xls format but still same problem.
As this is a Adhoc report I am not able to put any logic in fex file because date column can come in any order.

?FF SQLOUT is showing the datefield format as A10.

Please advice.

WF version: 8206

Thank You
Sandhya J

This message has been edited. Last edited by: FP Mod Chuck,

What’s the format of the date field in the DBMS?

It is store as mainframe date format. SP returns in alpha format.

If the SP is returning an Alpha field, WebFOCUS will send it to Excel as an Alpha field as well, unless you convert that field to a date. There are a lot of date conversion functions and depending on what your date field looks like when displayed, you can create a DEFINE to turn it into a real date field.

if your alpha 10 field looks like 2020/05/11 you can use DATECVT function to convert it to a date field. Here's a simple example.

  
-SET &MYDATE='2020/05/11';
DEFINE FILE CAR
NEW_DATE/A8 WITH COUNTRY=EDIT('&MYDATE','9999$99$99');
MY_NEW_DATE/YYMD = DATECVT(NEW_DATE, 'A8YYMD', 'YYMD');
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT MY_NEW_DATE
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XLSX
END

This message has been edited. Last edited by: BabakNYC,

Thank You somuch for the response.
As this is adhoc report, output columns varies, user can select any number of columns and date fields can be in any position to submit the report.
So from fex file I can only do PRINT *. In order to use the DEFINE I have to know the position of date field and it is not fixed position all the time.
Is there other way I can change the format using CHECK FILE HOLD?

I resolved my issue. Thanks for your inputs.