I am currently using "Read Excel Spreadsheet to CDT" Plug-in to read v

samuelr over 10 years ago

I am currently using "Read Excel Spreadsheet to CDT" Plug-in to read values from Excel. However, when I have a row in excel that needs to be read in as text and the field is defined as text in the cdt, the plug-in formats the data using a numerical protocol when the data is read in. Meaning if you have data in a cell as 456000000, it will not appear this way when its read in, even though everything is defined as text. It will instead read in 4.56e8, which is a problem when you get rounding and the values become distorted. This happens for columns with mixed data as well. I was wondering if there is a way to get the plug-in to read the data as it is stored in excel, without distortion, and without making any changes the excel file like putting ' before the data....

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0 samuelr over 10 years ago

The column is a mix of text and numbers, but the Appian field is of type text. What I would want is all of it to be read as text, but the plug-in read text ok and for the numbers does numerical formating and then puts it into the text field instead of reading it as it is given just like it would with text. Any suggestions on how to make it read the numbers in the column as they are specified would be very helpful.
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0 samuelr over 10 years ago

The column is a mix of text and numbers, but the Appian field is of type text. What I would want is all of it to be read as text, but the plug-in read text ok and for the numbers does numerical formating and then puts it into the text field instead of reading it as it is given just like it would with text. Any suggestions on how to make it read the numbers in the column as they are specified would be very helpful.
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