Convert Text to DateandTime

Hi Team,

I have below text and I want to convert it into a Date and Time.

Example:

Text:  "01/07/2025 12:00:35 PM"

Date and Time: 01/07/2025 12:00:35 PM or 01/07/2025 12:00:35 PM GMT+00:00

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  • Certified Lead Developer
    in reply to Sameer Ul Haq

    What is the desired output? Are you missing the seconds?

  • Getting below error when used todatetime()

    Expression evaluation error at function a!forEach [line 6]: Error in a!forEach() expression during iteration 1: Expression evaluation error at function 'todatetime' [line 19]: Could not cast from Time to Date and Time with Timezone. Details: CastInvalidCould not cast from Time to Date and Time with Timezone. Details: CastInvalid

  • Certified Lead Developer
    in reply to Sameer Ul Haq

    OK. What is the original data type? When trying to convert a string, this works great for me.

  • Output of the report data is being used to generate this text which needs to be converted into datetime.

    Text is generated like 

     index(split(fv!item.c0, "_"), 3, null)

    output: "01/07/2025 12:00:35 PM"

    todatetime( index(split(fv!item.c0, "_"), 3, null))

    ERROR:

    Expression evaluation error at function a!forEach [line 6]: Error in a!forEach() expression during iteration 1: Expression evaluation error at function 'todatetime' [line 19]: Could not cast from Time to Date and Time with Timezone. Details: CastInvalidCould not cast from Time to Date and Time with Timezone. Details: CastInvalid

  • Certified Lead Developer
    in reply to Sameer Ul Haq

    The split() function returns a list of strings. Not sure where that Time datatype comes from? Can you share more of your code? Ideally a fully working isolated test case?

  • a!localVariables(
      local!reportdata: {{c3: fn!datetime(2025, 1, 7, 5, 12, 2, 300), c0: "Workflow_00001_01/07/2025 12:00:35 PM", c1: 1, c2: "Process", dp1: null, dp0: 1055133, dp3: null, dp2: null}, {c3: fn!datetime(2025, 1, 3, 5, 20, 6, 410), c0: "Workflow_0001_01/03/2025 06:09:35 AM", c1: 1, c2: "Process", dp1: null, dp0: 1060892, dp3: null, dp2: null}, {c3: fn!datetime(2025, 1, 2, 12, 40, 13, 960), c0: "Workflow_0001_12/07/2022 06:09:35 AM", c1: 0, c2: "Process", dp1: null, dp0: 1060315, dp3: null, dp2: null}},
      a!forEach(
        items: local!reportdata,
        expression: if(a!isNotNullOrEmpty(fv!item), {
          taskName: fv!item.c2,
          Id: if(
            a!isNotNullOrEmpty(fv!item.c0),
            if(
              left(fv!item.c0, 3) = "PN",
              index(split(fv!item.c0, "_"), 3, null),
              index(split(fv!item.c0, "_"), 2, null)
            ),
            null
          ),
          SubDateTime: index(split(fv!item.c0, "_"), 3, null)
        }, null)
      )
    )

  • Certified Senior Developer
    in reply to Sameer Ul Haq

    Add the todatetime() function in line 16 it is working for me not returning any error.. 

    a!localVariables(
      local!reportdata: local!reportdata: {{c3: fn!datetime(2025, 1, 7, 5, 12, 2, 300), c0: "Workflow_00001_01-07-2025 12:00:35 PM", c1: 1, c2: "Process", dp1: null, dp0: 1055133, dp3: null, dp2: null}, {c3: fn!datetime(2025, 1, 3, 5, 20, 6, 410), c0: "Workflow_0001_01-03-2025 06:09:35 AM", c1: 1, c2: "Process", dp1: null, dp0: 1060892, dp3: null, dp2: null}, {c3: fn!datetime(2025, 1, 2, 12, 40, 13, 960), c0: "Workflow_0001_12-07-2022 06:09:35 AM", c1: 0, c2: "Process", dp1: null, dp0: 1060315, dp3: null, dp2: null}},
      a!forEach(
        items: local!reportdata,
        expression: if(a!isNotNullOrEmpty(fv!item), {
          taskName: fv!item.c2,
          Id: if(
            a!isNotNullOrEmpty(fv!item.c0),
            if(
              left(fv!item.c0, 3) = "PN",
              index(split(fv!item.c0, "_"), 3, null),
              index(split(fv!item.c0, "_"), 2, null)
            ),
            null
          ),
          SubDateTime: a!localVariables(
            local!date:split(fv!item.c0,"_"),
            todatetime(substitute(index(local!date,3,null),"-","/"))
          )
        }, null)
      )
    )

  • Certified Senior Developer
    in reply to Sameer Ul Haq

    If possible can you post the screenshot with the error