Is this a onetime shot?   or something that an end user has the ability to
do when needed?

Sincerely,
Paul Dewey 






-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Buckley
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:51 PM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Problem Importing an Excel File with File Gateway

Mike,

In looking at the CSV file, the date is stored as 20 Jan 2009.  Now what,
can we handle this?

Thanks,
Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MikeB
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:29 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Problem Importing an Excel File with File Gateway

Why don't you export a small sample from excel to a CSV and see how the 
format is actually arranged first.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Buckley" <[email protected]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:04 AM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Problem Importing an Excel File with File Gateway


> Can I get someone else to confirm this before I submit it to RBTI?  I'm
> trying to import an Excel XLS file using File Gateway in eXtreme 9.0, ver.
> 9.0.1.11111.  The Excel file has a date column and the dates are entered 
> as
> mm/dd/yyyy  but formatted to display as 'day month year' (i.e. 20 Jan 
> 2009)
> .  I have changed the gateway setting to DMY but the date data does not
> import (actually tried all options for format).  If I change the format of
> the Excel column to mm/dd/yyyy it imports correctly.
>
>
>
> Could someone please test this for me before I submit it?  It's very 
> likely
> I'm just missing something.  I've also tried this in the latest V8 build 
> and
> get the same results.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul Buckley
>
>
>
> 


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