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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Modify values in a!queryselection</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/new-to-appian/29104/modify-values-in-a-queryselection</link><description>Hi Everyone, 
 I am retrieving column data from db using a!queryselection but need to truncate the values for some columns. Can anyone please help me out, how to achieve this? 
 Many Thanks!</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Modify values in a!queryselection</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/114975?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:29:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:d8216b78-0fbb-4b8e-8faa-bc58efd8cb51</guid><dc:creator>Stefan Helzle</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Create a view in the DB to prepare the data.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Modify values in a!queryselection</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/114974?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:14:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:8941c394-1b95-41df-94e9-525df710feac</guid><dc:creator>Rahul009</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi All,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am using export DSE to excel smart service to extract data into excel, but one column values needs to the modified like to remove the last four digits and then extract into excel. Please suggest some solution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Modify values in a!queryselection</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/114973?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:07:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:e9993fda-910b-4974-8fcf-c9edbf4c43c3</guid><dc:creator>Stefan Helzle</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;For what purpose? Can you help us with more details about your use case?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Modify values in a!queryselection</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/114971?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:06:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:6e32aa12-2b25-48a6-9bf7-fb2209bf1bf0</guid><dc:creator>Harshit Bumb (Appyzie)</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;You cannot do that with any parts of a!queryEntity.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;This will happen once you have fetched the data from the DB if you are using a query entity.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;I will recommend using a custom record field and it will be much more efficient.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/23.2/custom-record-fields.html"&gt;docs.appian.com/.../custom-record-fields.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Modify values in a!queryselection</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/114970?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:03:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:a6031e13-62bd-4be9-a3e3-5114366d795b</guid><dc:creator>Rahul009</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Need to remove the last four digits from the values in a column.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Modify values in a!queryselection</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/114968?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:00:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:1bc7e616-1f3c-4929-9a55-b887d29bec78</guid><dc:creator>Harshit Bumb (Appyzie)</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;What do you mean by truncate? The round off the value or to delete the column data?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>