How to convert XSD datetime into Appian object

RE: How to convert XSD datetime into Appian object

erickp — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 19:59:44 GMT

We are still on 18.4 but it is good to know that in 19.3 Appian is doing it automatically. Thanks Stefan.

RE: How to convert XSD datetime into Appian object

Aditya — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:20:07 GMT

Hi,

You can store the xsd datetime which you are getting from the SOAP service as text value. Change the type of the datetime field to text in your cdt.

Once it is stored as text, you can convert it to required format in Appian or use it as it is.

If you donot want to store the value as text, you can convert the value to Appian readable format before saving the value to the cdt.

You can use a combination of split and todatetime functions to achieve this(convert the datetime to Appian format)

RE: How to convert XSD datetime into Appian object

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:27:46 GMT

Which Appian version are you working with? This is the default ISO date time format. Appian since version 19.3 will automatically parse it via a!fromJson()

RE: How to convert XSD datetime into Appian object

Shoaib — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:26:22 GMT

I have used this in multiple application

RE: How to convert XSD datetime into Appian object

erickp — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:17:00 GMT

Thank you. I will wait to see if anyone else has any other approach.

RE: How to convert XSD datetime into Appian object

Shoaib — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:28:11 GMT

use this in expression rule pass the date via rule input and keep the data type to text

with(
local!splitedDateandTime: split(
ri!jsonDateText,
"T"
) ,

local!dateInJson: split(
split(
local!splitedDateandTime[1],
"-"
),
"-"
),
local!timeInJson: split(
split(
local!splitedDateandTime[1],
"-"
),
":"
),
gmt(
datetime(
local!dateInJson[1],
local!dateInJson[2],
local!dateInJson[3],
local!timeInJson[1],
local!timeInJson[2],
local!timeInJson[3]
)
)
)