I am trying to customize the date in the format of dd-MMM-yyyy in a Microsoft tabular model and It does not seem to take.
It seems to go back to general every time I change it.
Can someone help me with a solution.
I had the same requirement and found answer over the web.
You can create a Calculated Column in your date table and use the Format function.
As an example using the AdventureWorksDW database as an example, you could create a calculated column with the following formula: =Format([FullDateAlternateKey], "dd-MMM-yyyy") and use it in target pivot
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I am exporting reports as XLS files from Salesforce. These reports have dates that I want to be able to manipulate in Excel but... Excel doesn't recognize them as dates.
The format outputted by Salesforce right now is m/d/yyyy (ie: 8/18/2022). When I go in Excel and change the format to date... the data is not recognized as a date.
It seems the only thing that Excel can consume are dates configured as yyyy-mm-dd.
I tried to play with Excel formatting date form with no luck.Excel doesn't recognize the Salesforce format, or does not propose anything similar to it
Is there a setting in Salesforce or in Excel that I need to adjust so that both apps can generate, and digest the same date configs?
I want to run these reports weekly so whatever requires the less Excel gymnastic will be the best solution (Google Docs for instance recognize dates as Salesforce spits them... - but I can't use GDocs at work).
You should use PowerQuery to import the data to Excel.
In PowerQuery change the Column-Type USING LOCAL
Select Date and English (United States)
Voila!
There is a date column used in OBIEE analysis. That column is declared as 'date' datatype in Oracle table, type in rpd is also 'DATE'. However, when exported to Excel, Excel is adding time values to the end of date part of this column. Here is a simple analysis:
The same analysis when exported into Excel:
As you can see, it is adding '5:00:00' to the end of '11.05.2022'. My guess is it is adding timezone values by default, which is the following in our OBIEE:
How can we prevent Excel from adding unnecessary values? Should we change settings in instanceconfig.xml file to use formatted value using 'UseFormattedValue' parameter? Or is there any simpler way to do this?
UseFormattedValue is the way to go because your problem isn't the Oracle side, but rather Microsoft trying to be "smart" in their interpretation in Excel.
https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/bi12214/biee/BIESG/GUID-FF6954BA-2DE0-4422-BA58-05F32936F4FF.htm#BIESG9196
I am working on a financial report now.there is an excel format available. i have to repeat the same in tableau. is it possible? or try o suggest some other BI tool.
I don't know about Tableau, based on what I know it should be possible. My company use Qlikview to present financial report.
http://www.qlik.com/
Is your data source in a fixed row/column structure? Tableau does not have any predefined formatting for financial statements in my experience, unless an ERP vendor has built something custom. You would have to create your own through 'groups' and calculated fields.
We have a Power Pivot report that displays some financial information given a current date range. While I can write some SQL or DAX to limit the entire dataset to that date range, I'd rather the workbook contain a large window of transactions -- but default a slicer to the current date.
Is it possible to dynamically set a slicer's value in PowerPivot? Maybe by passing parameters? I'd rather not use Visual Basic, as we'd like this to run in Excel Web Services.
Quick answer is yes.
You can utilize a flag on the date table that flags the current date and default a slicer value to TRUE/YES.
Another option is this pretty nifty idea here: http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Setting-the-Default-Value-of-a-Slicer/m-p/16449#M4552
I have an excel report which is generated from the web application.
In that report I need to place "(01/25/2013) Control", it's getting from a database query. I can't change the database query.
I want to change the date format as dd/mm/yyyy with including text like "(25/01/2013) Control", but my query gives date in mm/dd/yyyy format.
Please help me regarding above one.
One option would be to format the cell in the following way
Custom Number Format
"("dd/mm/yyyy") Control"