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Wrongly formatted data from CSV file for Time

Hi Experts,

I am running a report, which is extracting data from csv file and Universe. I am getting the data but one of the columns from csv file is Time and it’s populating as Date format.

Please let me know what should I do?

Thank you very much.


Rob_mot :uk: (BOB member since 2019-01-28)

Is the data correct in the underlying csv file? If not, return to sender.

Thank you Mark,

In the csv file its showing as Time format, 08:48:38, but in BOB report’s output as Excel is showing in Date format.

Thank you.


Rob_mot :uk: (BOB member since 2019-01-28)

Have you populated it as time format or as a time string in the report?

The export to Excel is notoriously flaky - I’ve had to write scripts in the past to open an Excel file and run a vba macro to format columns! :cry:

Much appreciated your time Mark!

The csv file’s format is as Custom. I tried to change it to time and run it again but it didn’t make any difference. I am running Macro to get the Excel output.

Thank you.


Rob_mot :uk: (BOB member since 2019-01-28)