Downloaded xls Dates

My date downloads correctly in Legacy i.e. 7/6/2021 but downloading the same using the current view the dates are not compatible with Excel i.e. 7-6-2021. Kindly someone help

Welcome back to the community, @gndichu! We already have a GitHub issue for this. Maybe you could track the same here:

Hello,
You can select the column and use Excel feature Data >> Convert text to Columns
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Afterwards you are free to do further Excel cell formatting.

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Hi @gndichu, @wroos, you can follow the feature here:

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Hello @Josh,
I would like to propose that those changes will be pre-tested to work well until SPSS (and Stata and R) import, not only for Excel level. Also metadata formats, like start, end, submission_time should be adapted, please, to allow date-time type format in SPSS (etc.).

At the moment, (bulk) conversion in SPSS can be done with alter type and format command scripts.
Kind regards

Hi @wroos, thanks for that and with regards to:

Also metadata formats, like start, end, submission_time should be adapted, please, to allow date-time type format

this is included in the update as seen here for start and end and here for _submission_time.

Can I ask that you assist with beta testing the feature before it’s released onto HHI and OCHA so we can work out any issues?

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