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BSBAL18
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I have a date field in my MAS file that Webfocus automatically broke into multiple fields for me (RUN_DATE, YEAR RUNDATE, Month RUNDATE, quarter ETC). I chose the YYYY/MM and on all my pages it works fine. However, when i export to Excel, that date field comes over as 45221, if i format the excel cell to date, it changes it correctly, but why is it picking it up as.. text? Is there a way to force my HTML page to text? so when it exports, it see text as text and doesnt try to mess with a date that Excel might not recognize? the .quotedString did not work.

FYI, WF 8.2 was not compatible with Office 365, so i had to change the export type to ExcelR2, so it MIGHT be something with the export of ExcelR2.

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AS Version: 8201
Gen: 10202016
Windows, All Outputs
 
Posts: 49 | Location: St. Louis | Registered: December 13, 2016Report This Post
MartinY
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To force Excel to read the field as a text you need to add a quote in front of the data prior to export to Excel.


WF versions : Prod 8.2.04M gen 33, Dev 8.2.04M gen 33, OS : Windows, DB : MSSQL, Outputs : HTML, Excel, PDF
In Focus since 2007
 
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