Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

Saikrishnan V — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:54:47 GMT

Hi jesush905075 , will check this, thanks!

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

jesush905075 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:12:48 GMT

check the latest version of this plugin: Appian Community

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

Shubham Aware — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:32:43 GMT

Raw value unreadable via plugin; uses display format.
Need to use RPA for Raw value extraction from excel.

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

Harsha Sharma — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:11:09 GMT

The Appian smart services will extract the cell value and not the pre-formatted underlying value from excel. So you need to work with Excel here so that exact value is stored in the cell instead of the rounded value. Otherwise there is no way to retrieve the original value in Appian.

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:14:05 GMT

This is showing a text type. So somewhere the numeric value is turned into text. The root cause could be the Excel, or the plugin.

But if you cannot modify the Excel, nor the plugin, not many options are left.

You could try to just dump the Excel into a database table and check whether the data types survive this transformation.

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

Saikrishnan V — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:52:41 GMT

We using the plugin in the expression rule and below is the extracted data (highlighted one is the display value).

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:39:26 GMT

[quote userid="316815" url="~/discussions/f/general/40237/can-we-able-to-read-actual-value-instead-of-display-value-from-excel/153776"]plugin is returning the formatted display value[/quote]

How do you know?

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

Saikrishnan V — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:35:03 GMT

Hi Shubham, we receiving the excel files from outside and we performing the extraction, so we couldn't able to format the column.

Are there any other method to retrieve the actual value or is this the only way.

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

Saikrishnan V — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:28:12 GMT

Hi Stefan, the plugin is returning the formatted display value (9.79) in text. I need to get the actual value (9.7881336)

Below is the excel image.

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

Shubham Aware — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:05:39 GMT

Format Excel column as Text to store/read full precision as string, then todecimal().

RE: Can we able to read actual value instead of display value from excel.

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:30:52 GMT

Use the text() function to format the value as required.