I am using PowerpointWriter to populate a ppt table. I have currency and date columns that need to be formatted (not with colors/fonts/etc). For example, the date column needs to be the date only, not the time.
How do I do this?
Thanks,
Cheri
PowerPointWriter does not support that kind of formatting at the moment. You should consider formatting your data in your application before binding the data to the PowerPoint file using PowerPointWriter..
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When exporting a query result from SQL Developer to Excel (format xlsx) the dates in my query seem to be exported as text.
I need to filter and sort this data in Excel.
After exporting Excel gives me the option to convert the dates to 20XX, but is there a way to format my dates fields in such a way that I can sort straight away?
My current date format in Preferences is DD-MON-RR
I have a workaround; instead of exporting directly to XLSX, export result as a CSV. Excel is capable of opening such files and - guess what - sorting by date column works fine (I've just tested it). Then, if you want, save file as XSLX.
Yes, I know, this is impracticable, but that's the best I know right now.
I use Google Sheets to keep a list of applications I am doing. In each row there is a date field. I want to sort by date now. The first row is frozen using View - Freeze - 1 row. When I select the whole table, press Data - Sort range... and then check Data has header row the sheet is sorted. But not by date but by string. The format of the cells is date. Is only string sorting possible? If yes, I would have to reformat the whole document to dates like 2017-01-11, correct?
The solution was to replace the . by /. Seems as if the common german format using . is not yet supported. Make sure the date is recognized as date. If the cell is right-aligned it worked, if not it did not work.
I learned that you can create a custom date format using the ..
Now the date is entered 10/01/2017 but displayed 10.01.2017. Just the way I wanted.
I have sheet in Qlik Cloud, where I have dataset from whole month. I would like to filter this dataset by date or time - 1 day, 1 week, 12 hours... column with date/time in format yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss is in dataset for each row. Is possible insert some calendar? Or have you any idea?
Thanks for your answers ;)
Provided that your data is loaded correctly, drag the field directly onto the sheet. This will create a look-up box that can be searched.
You can see if the field has been identified correctly as a date as it will appear like this on the field selector
Another Option
Create a filter box option and add your date field to it, the benefit of this is that you can have multiple filters in one place. Allowing users to pick the part of the date relevant to them. For example showing the year field, the month field and the date field in one
one more option
Using non-standard Qlik extensions you can achieve the functionality that you require. SenseDateRangePicker is an extension that provides extended date selection functionality.
I ran an SQL Query for Oracle which consists of Invoice date and Check date. When these data are copied on to an Excel Spreadsheet as text, it's dispayed as ex: "13-10-31" (Oct 31, 2013). However, when converted to date format, it's displayed as "10/13/1931". I've tried different date types but it always recognizes as the first part of the text as the day, then month, then year. I need these values to be setup as a date format as I need to calculate Days Payable Outstanding and other related ratios.
Is there any way to convert these values so that Excel recognizes the day, month, and year correctly? Would there be a macro that could automate this process for existing data and data that will be added in the future?
Thank you in advance.
Firstly, I hope the data type of your date column is DATE.
Secondly, the date should always have year as YYYY and not just YY. The world has already learned from Y2K bug.
If above two points are met, then while displaying use to_char(date_column, 'mm/dd/yyyy'). Thus, with YYYY format, there won't be any confusion between year and other fields.
By default if the input parameter to BIRT report is of type Date, it takes yyyy-MM-dd format.
Can we change to something else e.g. may be dd/MM/yyyy ?
You can change the input format for a date parameter. Click on "Change..." select Format as "Custom" and you can enter a valid format code as you like.
If you want to enter a default Date you still have to use the yyyy-MM-dd Format, this cannot be changed ( where I used new Date() in the Picture), but the output format will still be your entered format.
Another option is to use the format Date Time section in the Birt designer and choose the right locale and formatting for the date.
I have done it in Birt 3.7 and works fine
There can be many way to do that but the easy one is you can do this in SQL Query itself.
If you are using DB2 you may try
VARCHAR_FORMAT("Your Column Mapping Name",'DD-Mon-YYYY') AS dataSetName.
But this will change its Data type to String
Try if this make any seance.