Time/Date Formats when exporting Data to Excel

[#1]

When saving reports from both Adobe Analytics and more importantly, Adobe Ad-Hoc Analytics would love to see that any date/time dimention on a report is formatted correctly on the Excel Spreadsheet to allow for easily sorting/ordering etc.

For example, when running a Ad-Hoc report broken down by various months over a long time period, I want to be able to display this in date order (Which isn't possible in Ad-hoc to sort by the dimention at present). As these aren't date formatted for Excel, I have to manually move each row of this report to show the months in the correct order which is a time consuming process.

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[#2]

Hi,

I agree with you, this is annoying and kind of silly to have a date as text format. I created a formula workaround with vlookup...

Clientcare says this is a feature, not a bug!

Thanks for posting the idea.

Regards

Stefanie

[#3]

Hi,

I have seen this problem too and could only fix it by inserting a column in Excel to run the date through an IF/VALUE/TEXT style formula to change the formatting.

[#4]

Hi Gary,

would you mind sharing the exact formula?

Regards

Stefanie

[#5]

Hi @Stef @Gary @Michael_Spencer

You should be able to sort by date/month if you change the 'Font and Locale' settings under Tools > Settings in AdHoc Analysis to English (International).

[#6]

@_JM_

I did what you suggested above however on export it was still formatted as a text field.

[#7]

Hi JM,

for me it does not work either... Maybe you are using another version of Excel?

[#8]

Hi Stef,

Sorry if it is not working. For me and my colleagues it worked by just changing the locale.

I am using Excel 2010 (Windows)

Attached is the screenshot from Discover for both locales. The only thing I did was changing the locale and restarting Discover. As you can see here, the date format is automatically changed to the Excel friendly dd-mmm-yyyy format

Please note that if you are using International locale then you might not see the segments,metrics,dimensions etc due to a recent bug in Java/Discover

More details here: Known issue with Ad Hoc Analysis and Java 8 Update 71

[#9]

Hi,

by the way: when exporting from data warehouse, it is also not working for me.

There is simply text, i.e. "December 2015".

BR

[#10]

How about this as a formula where A2 is March 16, 2024

And where the formula is:

=DATE(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,", ","∞",1)," ","¢"),4),MONTH(DATEVALUE("1-"&TEXT(MID(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,", ","∞",1)," ","¢"),1,FIND("¢",SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,", ","∞",1)," ","¢"))-1),"mm")&"-1900")),MID(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,", ","∞",1)," ","¢"),FIND("¢",SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,", ","∞",1)," ","¢"))+1,FIND("∞",SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,", ","∞",1)," ","¢"))-(FIND("¢",SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,", ","∞",1)," ","¢"))+1)))

It's not the most elegant of formulas, but it worked for me.