I am Using BIRT for reporting in my project.
The report shows correct value for amount(String) as 123456789123, but when i try to export the same report into csv, the csv file shows same amount as 1.234E11.
I want to value as 123456789123 in csv too.
Please help
Thanks
I imagine this is probably an issue with viewing it in Excel. Exporting data does not export format codes. Open the csv in notepad and you will see the correct data. If you export the report to excel you can set a custom format code like #####0 in the Format Number property in the properties editor for the data item.
If the number is too large excel will display the value like that. If you expand the column and set the column to number under format cells it will display correctly. You will need to save it as an excel workbook.
We just had this problem with the our BiRT reporting tool. When we opened the exported file in a text editor the number was formatted in scientific notation. This was a bug with one of Birt's custom formatters.
We had to look at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.dataextraction.impl.CommonDataExtractionImpl and change the line
valueFormatters[i] = new NumberFormatter( patterns[i], this.locale );
to
String pattern = patterns[i] == null ? "Unformatted" : patterns[i];
valueFormatters[i] = new NumberFormatter( pattern, this.locale );
Setting the pattern to "Unformatted" made default format stay as a normal integer rather than scientific notation (via a decimal formatter).
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I am writting because I have a problem with my results viewer on Sas 9.4.
When they charge the resukts are the same as in output. Instead of having a table with cell I have a table draw with -+|. Layouts options does not work and when exporting to excel for example each line are contain into one cell (with | where it shiuld change cell).
Is there sonething I can do?
Because like this I am loosing a lot of the options SAS offer
(I already checked tools:options:preferences:results and checked create html)
Thank you on advanced for your help!
Here's an example of how you'd put results in Excel.
I'm guessing you're copying from HTML to Excel?
ods excel file = '/home/fkhurshed/Demo/demo.xlsx';
proc means data=sashelp.class;
run;
proc freq data=sashelp.class;
table sex*gender / norow nocol nopercent;
run;
ods excel close;
I have a cell in excel formatted as date with value '31-03-2017' but when I am exporting the excel to html it is getting converted to '31/03/2017'.
'03-31-2017' again a date formatted cell but coming up as expected, if I have to speculate looks like there is a problem with dd-MM-yyyy format.
I am using "aspose-cells-8.7.0" library.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Code snippet
Workbook workbook = new Workbook(new FileInputStream(new File("filePath")));
workbook.calculateFormula();
HtmlSaveOptions htmlSaveOptions = new HtmlSaveOptions();
htmlSaveOptions.setPresentationPreference(true);
htmlSaveOptions.setParseHtmlTagInCell(false);
htmlSaveOptions.setExportHiddenWorksheet(false);
workbook.save("outputPath", htmlSaveOptions);
Such issue occurs because of Language and Region Settings of your machine i.e. OS (Operating System). Please see the following screenshot. You can change your region and country and number and date formats from such interfaces.
Now, whenever you will change your region or language, your dates will look different because your dates are in built-in formats and they don't have custom formats.
In order to test this, please change the region and open your Excel file in Microsoft Excel and you will see, your dates now look different.
It means, you should load your workbook with the correct region and language settings. Here is the sample code for your reference. Please read its comments.
Java
//Please load your workbook with correct Language and Region - Country Code
LoadOptions loadOptions = new LoadOptions();
loadOptions.setLanguageCode(CountryCode.USA);
loadOptions.setRegion(CountryCode.USA);
//Pass the load options while loading workbook
Workbook workbook = new Workbook(new FileInputStream(new File("filePath")), loadOptions);
Note: I am working as Developer Evangelist at Aspose
I'm pasting Tab Delimited data from Notepad++ to excel (about 50k rows and 3 columns). No matter how many different ways I try it, Excel wants to convert a cell containing one " to the next instance of " into one cell content.
For Example, if my data looked like this:
"Apple 1.0 Store
Banana 1.3 Store
"Cherry" 2.5 Garden
Watermelon 4.0 Field
The excel file looks like this:
Apple1.0StoreBanana1.3Store
Cherry 2.5GardenWatermelon4.0Field
One way to get around this is to open the file as a CSV in excel, however this leads to Excel formatting the number values to simplified ones using Excel's "General" format. So the data would look like the following:
"Apple 1 Store
Banana 1.3 Store
"Cherry" 2.5 Garden
Watermelon 4 Field
The data I'm getting is coming from SQL Server Studio so my options for file formats are:
.CSV
.Txt (Tab-delimited)
Copy Pasting from Query results
The solution I'm looking for is to have the data represented in Excel with no excel processing taking place on the quotations, numbers or any other cell contents.
Don't open the file directly in excel. Instead import it and control the data types and file layout.
Open a new excel document:
Select Data menu:
Select From Text in get External Data section.
Select file to import
On step 1 of import wizard select delimited
Click next
Select tab checkbox and change text qualifier to {none}.
Click next
Set column data types to general, text, text
Click finish.
Excel auto imports the data the best it can when you open directly in excel. You lose flexibility/control when this happens. better to import and control yourself to get the fine adjustments you're looking for.
You end up with something like this:
By treating the numbers like text, the zero's don't get messed up.
By setting the text qualifier to none, the quotes don't get messed up.
Have you tried opening it via Text Import?
Got to Data tab > From Text (third form left on default)
You will have window similar to Text To Columns.
Select correct delimiter, remember to remove the quote sign from TExt Qualifier and mark all columns as text to avoid Excel autoformatting.
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3:
EXCEL TIP: TIME SAVING IN IMPORTING CSV FILES INTO EXCEL: If u pre-set your Text-To-Columns delimiter parameters correctly in EXCEL (eg specify tabs as the delimiter) and then copy and paste the CSV data, Excel will import the CSV paste directly into the correct columns without u having to going through the Text-To-Columns rigmarole. This was particularly time saving when i had to import hundreds of bank statements into Excel.
However if your Text-To-Columns delimiters are pre-specified incorrectly as e.g. comma and you are importing tab delimited files then excel will dump all the data into one column, and u will have to go through the time consuming process of converting Text-To-Columns for each statement.
EXCEL LOOKS TO THE EXISTING Text-To-Columns delimiters TO SEE IF IT CAN USE THOSE TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER WHEN PASTING DATA
Hope that tip helps (It saved me several hours)
I'm trying read the data from 2 csv files and export into the new excel file, but I'm not able to export the data in excel destination. While doing the mapping of the columns, there are 4 columns in the input columns but it is showing only 1 column in available output column that is only F1. Please let me know how to resolve this issue.
If I understand the question correctly, you are unable to map columns to a ‘new’ XL file.
If this is the case, the metadata for the mappings is probably the issue.
Try first creating a new xl file with the column headings and column types you want, then map to this.
Alternativly, right click on the excel destination and use the ‘Show Advanced Editor’ option and then adjust the columns in the ‘External Colums’ of ‘Input and Output settings tab.
You may then need to set the ValidateExternalMetadata option to false for the excel destination component in order to allow creation of new files from scratch.
Open an excel sheet and on the 1st row, give the column headings. Column A, B, C and D should have the same names as your source columns. After doing so, save the excel file and close the work book. Go to SSIS and open the Excel destination mappings. You should be able to map them now.
Win XP, Excel 2007
I know there are various other posts on csv formatting but couldn't quite find what i needed.
Some of our data is held off site by another company and they send us a csv file every morning with the previous days data.
The problem is this data has come from web input forms that may have drop-down lists.
For example there may be a drop down list of Number of Employees with options like 1-10, 11-25, 26-50 etc
When we open the csv file in Excel certain options like 1-10 has been turned into Oct-01 date format which we do not want.
Is there an easy way to change these back OR reformat the cells and do a find...replace? (This didn't seem to work terribly well as it kept reverting back to the date)
Indeed is there a better way of opening the csv file to keep the formatting intact? and save us doing lots of find...replaces.
Ultimately we will need to open the csv in Excel though.
Grateful for any hints
Isn't that SO annoying? Here's how I deal with this issue:
When you open the CSV file in Excel, you should get a dialog with parsing options. First you select delimited or fixed then you get a screen that previews the data parsing.
It's easy to miss, but in the upper right corner of the dialog box there's an option to set a specific data format for each column. Select the column you want to protect and set the format to text. (This keeps Excel from dropping the leading zeros in ZIP codes for New England too!)
Once you get it into Excel, you can do a vlookup or replace to reset the values to your own codes.
Hope this helps. Good luck.