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LeonW
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Hi there,

I'm working on a report which has time fields, when I export as HTML or any other format, the time formats are fine. Challenge is when I export to XLSX I get ####### in the time field in Excel. If I select the field to see the value in the field, I get a number value in it. I have tried to change the format of the field to HHI but still get this error.

ARRIVALTIME/HHI AS 'Arrival,Time'

Any suggestions ?

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Francis Mariani
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This seems to work in WF 8.0.08:

DEFINE FILE CAR
ARRIVALTIME/HYYMDS = DT(20091117 15:24:34.165);
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
ARRIVALTIME

ARRIVALTIME/HHI AS 'Arrival,Time'

ARRIVALTIME/HHI   AS 'ARRIVALTIME_HHI'
ARRIVALTIME/HHIa  AS 'ARRIVALTIME_HHIa'
ARRIVALTIME/HHIS  AS 'ARRIVALTIME_HHIS'
ARRIVALTIME/HHISa AS 'ARRIVALTIME_HHISa'

COMPUTE AT_HHI/HHI     = ARRIVALTIME;
COMPUTE AT_HHIa/HHIa   = ARRIVALTIME;
COMPUTE AT_HHIS/HHIS   = ARRIVALTIME;
COMPUTE AT_HHISa/HHISa = ARRIVALTIME;

BY COUNTRY

ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XLSX
END


Francis


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Francis Mariani
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What is the format of ARRIVALTIME?


Francis


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LeonW
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Thanks for your response Francis, I see in the meta data the format is HHIS but for some reason when you export to XLSX (also read some other responses) WF exports it as Alpha. We have tried a fix on this to add anew field with HCNVRT to A8 and this then appears correctly on the XLSX.


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Tony A
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quote:
This seems to work in WF 8.0.08:

Also OK in WF8.1.04

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LeonW
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Thanks Tony, I think the challenge is we on server 8004 and app studio 8105. We busy upgrading the server at present.


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Tony A
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Hi Leon,

Just mentioned it as "WebFOCUS 8" in your signature didn't give the release that you are using Smiler

BTW, I am not sure that it is advisable to have App Studio at a different release to your server. I know that there isn't an App Studio version for your server release but it has always been the case regarding server and developer client (e.g. Dev or App Studio).

T


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jgelona
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Have you tried:


EXL2KTXTDATE

The EXL2KTXTDATE parameter allows you to specify that translated dates should be sent as date values with format masks instead of text values.

The syntax is: SET EXL2KTXTDATE = {TEXT|VALUE}

where:
TEXT - Passes date values that contain text to Excel 2000 as formatted text. TEXT is the default value.
VALUE - Passes the types of translated date values that contain text and are supported Excel date formats to Excel 2000 as standard date values with text format masks applied.


My user usually complain if dates come over as text and they can't use the Excel Date filters.


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LeonW
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Thanks I will try that as well Smiler


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