Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

RE: Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

maryl0003 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:36:57 GMT

Exactly!

Thank you Mike, I got confused a bit in that in the start.

RE: Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

maryl0003 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:35:21 GMT

No, We are storing the date in database as date type itself. But the date is stored in this format(2022-10-03) in the DB. Appian is automatically fetching it in correct format on Interface. I got confused in the start, although its resolved now. Thank you.

RE: Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 13:59:17 GMT

The exact expression `2022-10-03` (note no quotation marks etc) will evaluate as a math operation, i.e. "2022 minus 10 minus 3", and return an integer value, which Appian will try to interpret as a date (and of course will be very wrong).

Note that if your DB columns are set to the "Date" data type, they will be displayed there as YYYY-MM-DD formatting, however this is just the display mode. Appian will actually receive a proper "date" data type when querying the data from the DB, which in Appian will display with the default Appian date formatting. There should be no need (assuming the date is stored in the DB as a date and not as text) to have to play with manually parsing the value back into a Date from a YYYY-MM-DD formatted text string.

RE: Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

maryl0003 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:59:48 GMT

Splitting and then Reversing worked well in this case, thanks Gabriele Camilli

RE: Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:58:39 GMT

Is there a specific reason to store a date as a string in the database? Using a date field would avoid all the hassle.

RE: Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

Gabriele Camilli — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:17:28 GMT

Hi,

If it's consistent just use

todate(
joinarray(
reverse(
split(ri!date,"-")
),
"/"
)
)

I guess that the DB column it's string so note that ri!date should be of type text

RE: Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

maryl0003 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:47:43 GMT

Thanks Shalini, but how can we convert "2022-10-03" that is coming from database to "03-10-2022" ?

RE: Why my ER is taking wrong value of date.

shalini — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:41:05 GMT

Use todate("03-10-2022")