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Item code in excel [message #487937] Mon, 03 January 2011 11:51 Go to next message
hany_marawan
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Registered: April 2005
Location: Cairo - Egypt
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Hello,
I published a report in the inventory module as XML report.
When I open the output in excel the items code converted to a date.
I.e if I have item code like '01/04/01' it convert in the excel to '01/04/2001'.

How can I solve this problem.

Thanks
Re: Item code in excel [message #487950 is a reply to message #487937] Mon, 03 January 2011 14:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
mkoolwij
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Registered: January 2011
Location: Breda, The Netherlands
Junior Member

Hi,

I assume you are using a RTF template for this inventory report. How did you set the 'Text Form Field Options'?

Kind regards,
Marcel
Re: Item code in excel [message #488011 is a reply to message #487950] Tue, 04 January 2011 03:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
hany_marawan
Messages: 198
Registered: April 2005
Location: Cairo - Egypt
Senior Member
Hello,
Yes I used RTF template.
The type of the filed is "regular text"
I left the "text format" empty as the default.

Regards
Re: Item code in excel [message #488099 is a reply to message #488011] Tue, 04 January 2011 14:23 Go to previous message
mkoolwij
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Registered: January 2011
Location: Breda, The Netherlands
Junior Member

Hi,

Not sure if this can be solved in a nice way. Found a note saying:

This is not a BI Publisher issue but due to the way MS Excel is working.
MS Excel is treating the field as number instead of a character.

As a Workaround you may try to modify your template by adding a character to this field in order to force MS Excel to treat it as character and not as number.


You might give it a try to add a ' in front of the actual item code.

Regards,
Marcel
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