https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/rules/7608/convert-text-to-date-datetimeIs there a function or rule to convert a piece of text to date or datetime? For e.g. &#39;2017-01-07 19:09:29&#39;. Essentially, I&#39;m looking for the opposite of fn!text which will accept a piece of text and format as input. OriginalPostID-212479 OriginalPostIDen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/81094?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:56:46 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:861e1cca-1016-4e51-8df0-8b15c0fc7804Dylan Freadhoff<p>Use the value function.&nbsp; See&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.1/fnc_text_value.html">docs.appian.com/.../fnc_text_value.html</a></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/31196?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 17 May 2016 01:11:27 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:e45dc1c9-6e64-4c45-90dc-f608411fff78vinitl522Hello Vishal,<br />You can save the below expression in a rule and then convert the text to date time value:<br /><br />=userdatetime(tointeger(left(ri!txtDate,4)),tointeger(extract(ri!txtDate,&quot;-&quot;,&quot;-&quot;)[1]),tointeger(right(extract(ri!txtDate,&quot;-&quot;,&quot; &quot;)[1],2)),tointeger(extract(ri!txtDate,&quot; &quot;,&quot;:&quot;)[1]),tointeger(extract(ri!txtDate,&quot;:&quot;,&quot;:&quot;)[1]),tointeger(right(ri!txtDate,2)))<div style="clear:both;"></div>