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February 9, 2019
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Scientific Format In Data Warehouse Report

  • February 9, 2019
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Hi. I am trying to schedule a marketing cloud visitor ID report through data warehouse and when I get the excel file the ID is converted into a scientific format. I have tried to change format by using "Custom" format in excel however that results in multiple zeroes after a few digits. Also this report will be consumed as it is so can't really edit it every time before it is used. Any suggestions would be welcome.

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Best answer by Hyder_Ziaee

Hi.

You mention that another team is going to consume this automatically. Are they going to be using Excel to check the data. The data only gets distorted when the file is opened in Excel. if the other team is not using excel, then they shouldn't have any issues.

If they are using Excel to check the data. You can probably use Report Builder. In that use the prepend function to avoid changing the value to scientific notation
Re: Report Builder keeps formatting numbers in Scientific/Text format

Regards,

Hyder

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Gigazelle
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
March 11, 2019

Did some digging, and this is specifically an issue with Excel - I'm afraid there's not much Adobe can do on this front. Excel automatically converts large numbers to scientific notation, and currently there isn't a way to turn it off.

A workaround would be to start with an empty workbook, then set all cells to the format of 'number'. You can then use the import data from csv functionality to open the file.

Urs_Boller
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
March 11, 2019

while doing the import, in excel set the corresponding row to "string" and the mid gets displayed correctly. doing this all the time and don't have any issues with this option...