Convert text of type "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" to datetime

RE: Convert text of type "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" to datetime

Abhishek Gaddam — Wed, 10 May 2023 20:39:19 GMT

Thank you.

RE: Convert text of type "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" to datetime

bihitakdass — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:56:32 GMT

Thanks for the information.

RE: Convert text of type "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" to datetime

bihitakdass — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:56:18 GMT

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RE: Convert text of type "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" to datetime

bihitakdass — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:56:09 GMT

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RE: Convert text of type "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" to datetime

agam — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 23:47:57 GMT

Try using parsedate function.

This is available in plugin: Date and Time Utilities

Eg: parsedate("11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT")

Output:

11/05/2021 07:08 GMT+00:00(Date and Time)

RE: Convert text of type "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" to datetime

Naresh — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:52:54 GMT

As mike mentioned you can do this using combination of Appian Functions. You can try this logic it might work for your scenario. This is just a reference you may need to tweak based on your requirement

a!localVariables(
  local!dateTextValue: "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT",
  local!splitDateTextValues: split("11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT", " "),
  local!month: displayvalue(
    local!splitDateTextValues[2],
    {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "April", "May", "June", "July", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"},
    {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12},
    ""
  ),
  local!splitTime: split(local!splitDateTextValues[4], ":"),
  local!dateTimeValue: datetime(
    tointeger(local!splitDateTextValues[3]),
    tointeger(local!month),
    tointeger(local!splitDateTextValues[1]),
    tointeger(local!splitTime[1]),
    tointeger(local!splitTime[2]),
    tointeger(local!splitTime[3]),
  ),
  local!dateTimeValue
)

RE: Convert text of type "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" to datetime

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:28:01 GMT

Using a combination of Appian functions you could develop an Expression Rule that consumes the date text string in question and returns a valid Appian DateTime value. It would require a bit of parsing on your part.

The starting hint I have is, the "datetime()" funciton consumes "year, month, day, hour, minute, second". You would be able to use existing functions to break up the incoming text into parts, convert the month text to a numeric value, and pass them all into that rule. You would want to test it against a wide variety of example inputs to make sure it returns the expected results in all such cases.