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 shrutij over 10 years ago

Hello Samuel, The concern here could be the format set on the columns in the uploaded excel sheet and may not be the data type of the fields/attributes in the CDT.
If you can set the format of the column (having a mix of text and numbers) as "Text", instead of "General", it may help you.
Could you please try this -
Select the column (having mixed data of text and numbers) in the excel sheet --> Right Click --> Format Cells --> Category (Select the category as "Text" explicitly) and upload this updated sheet.
Hope this helps.
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0 shrutij over 10 years ago

Hello Samuel, The concern here could be the format set on the columns in the uploaded excel sheet and may not be the data type of the fields/attributes in the CDT.
If you can set the format of the column (having a mix of text and numbers) as "Text", instead of "General", it may help you.
Could you please try this -
Select the column (having mixed data of text and numbers) in the excel sheet --> Right Click --> Format Cells --> Category (Select the category as "Text" explicitly) and upload this updated sheet.
Hope this helps.
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