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.
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I am trying to track stock prices with Googlefinance function in Sheets. I can pull the price for a date with =INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE((B2),"price",date(2019,12,13)),2,2) which is fine but I want to input the date with Column A which has date data. So, (A1) instead of (2019,12,13)but for some reason I get errors.
This seems simple but I cannot get it to pull the date from my column. Ive tried removing DATE and just using the cell but this also doesnt work.
the formula that worked for me is
=index(GOOGLEFINANCE("YOUR_STOCK", "price",A1),2,2)
If, like you said, you already tried that and it did not work, you should link us a test sheet with your formula.
make sure A1 is really a date. you can check this with
=ISDATE(A1)
the output should be TRUE. your formula is correct:
=INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE(B2; "price"; A1); 2; 2)
I have tried this, but I get three dots
=IMPORTXML("https://covid19.sabah.digital/covid19/","//span[#class='number-last_updated']")
When I saw the HTML data, it seems that the last updated date is displayed by Javascript. By this, unfortunately, the value cannot be directly retrieved with IMPORTXML. This has already been mentioned in the comments.
When I saw the HTML data again, I noticed that the information of date is included in https://data.covid19.sabah.digital/global.json. From this data, how about retrieving the last updated date? In this answer, as a workaround, in order to retrieve the last updated value, I would like to propose to retrieve the data using the following sample formula.
Sample formula:
=TEXT(MAX(ARRAYFORMULA(DATEVALUE(REGEXEXTRACT(QUERY(IMPORTDATA(A1),"SELECT Col1 WHERE Col1 contains 'date'"),"\d{4}-\d{1,2}-\d{1,2}"))))+1,"yyyy-MM-dd")
In this formula, please put the URL of https://data.covid19.sabah.digital/global.json to the cell "A1".
The flow of this formula is as follows.
Retrieve the JSON data using IMPORTDATA.
Retrieve the data values from the retrieved data using QUERY.
Convert the text to the serial number using DATEVALUE.
Retrieve the max value using MAX.
It seems that when this value is added by 1, it is the updated date.
If you don't need this, please remove +1 from the formula.
Convert the serial number to the text using TEXT.
Result:
References:
IMPORTDATA
QUERY
DATEVALUE
MAX
TEXT
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..
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'm stuck with sorting and showing the correct date in Xpages.
It is saved in format "dd.MM.yyyy" and it's a string.
Now why it's a string and formated that way, is because my boss has special wishes. And when I want to sort it from the newest date to older it does something like this:
26.05.2015
24.06.2014
22.04.2015
21.04.2015
20.03.2014
It starts sorting by day.
Is there a way to make it sort it like it should?
I see that i can write a Computed value to Sort column in view column header for date. But i don't know how to even start.
Change the underlying Notes view to get your date column into right order.
Convert the date strings to real date values in views column formula. Assuming your field is called DateText then your formula would be
#Date(#ToNumber(#Right(DateText; 4));
#ToNumber(#Middle(DateText; 3; 2));
#ToNumber(#Left(DateText; 2)))
It would be easier to use just #ToTime(DateText) but this can fail depending on server's local settings. Your date string format would work for a server with German locale settings but not for US. That's why is my suggested solution "safer".
If the date time value doesn't solve your problem and you do not transform your date via #Text (as mentioned in the comments) then create another (hidden) column BEFORE your column that should be displayed. Make this a true date (from your item), sort it and unsort the column to display.
Otherwise use this formula in the newly created sorted column:
#Text(#Year(yourDate))+"-"+#Right("00"+#Text(#Month(yourDate));2)+"-"+#Right("00"+#Text(#Day(yourDate));2)