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Date format is weird after exporting to excel

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mmajdana1
mmajdana1 Rank 6 - Analytics Lead
edited Aug 13, 2024 5:24PM in Oracle Analytics Cloud and Server

Hi, I am using OBIEE 12.1.2.0

In my analysis i have some date fields and when i run the analysis the dates are shown like this.

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and this is ok , but when i export it in excel the dates are shown like this

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Does anyone knows why is this happening,and how to fix it.

The columns are set as  DATE in Admin tool  and they are DATE in Database.

K, Matija

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  • Joel
    Joel Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    Take a look at this document from MOS

  • mmajdana1
    mmajdana1 Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    This is the way to do it, thank you.

    But, is there any possibility to change it somwhere globally so i dont have to change it on every column in every analysis sperately?@Joel Acha

    Kr, Matija

  • Joel
    Joel Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    A few things you could try:

    You can take a snapshot of 1 analysis that has a date column that is affected by this. Make the changes to the date column custom format in this analysis and then compare the XML of the analysis before and after the change to see what the XML changes are. You can then make the global change by using the catalog manager search & replace option.

    The other option you could try is to but be aware that this change is global and will affect all references of this column throughout your entire catalog:

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