Export to Excel dropping leading zeroes

Hi,
I have used the 'Export' feature of the form and is working well except it drops the leading zeroes on some columns.
I have defined them as string so it should retain them. How can I keep the zeroes?
Thank you.

When you say that is dropping the zeros only for a few columns, is it working fine for other columns having leading zeros? If yes, check the type of data defined for the placeholder bean and the data type of the corresponding VO column.
--Shiv

Similar Messages

Excel copy drops leading zeros

I have records with a part number that is a text field, but contains digits. When I export to excel, the excel spreadsheet drops leading zeros from the part number.
How do I get the export to treat this as a text field and retain the zeros.
No, I have no option to make this a number field.

When the report is displayed on the screen initially for column "blah" the Conditional Display PL/SQL Expression "INSTR(NVL(:REQUEST,'YABBADABBADO'),'EXCEL') = 0" evaluates to TRUE because REQUEST does not have 'EXCEL' in it causing the value to display on the screen. For column "blah_excel" the Conditional Display PL/SQL Expression "INSTR(NVL(:REQUEST,'YABBADABBADO'),'EXCEL') != 0" evaluates to FALSE because REQUEST does not have 'EXCEL' in it causing "blah_excel" to not display.
When the user clicks to download to CSV the page's REQUEST has 'EXCEL' in it. I think actual request value is 'FLOW_EXCEL'. For column "blah" the Conditional Display PL/SQL Expression "INSTR(NVL(:REQUEST,'YABBADABBADO'),'EXCEL') = 0" evaluates to FALSE because REQUEST has 'EXCEL' in it causing the value to not appear in the CSV. For column "blah_excel" the Conditional Display PL/SQL Expression "INSTR(NVL(:REQUEST,'YABBADABBADO'),'EXCEL') != 0" evaluates to TRUE because REQUEST does have 'EXCEL' in it causing "blah_excel" to appear in the CSV.
http://mikerife.blogspot.com/2007/08/preserve-leading-zeros-in-apex-csv.html
Mike

Application/vnd.ms-excel dropping leading 0's

I have a jsp page that successfully displays my data in an excel window on the browser. My user then will cut and paste the data from the screen to Excel running on their desktop. My problem now is the leading zeroes are dropping off. The data being passed are String objects and are being passed as such. Is there any info regarding formatting that allows one to put a special character in the String object to keep the zeroes. I have tinkered with placing a single quote into the String and it works, but when cut and pasted to Excel running on the desktop the sinqle quote remains. I cannot find any docs that discuss how to format the cells in the browswer.
javaembryo-
code sample
<%@ page language="java" contentType="application/vnd.ms-excel" %>
<td><%=LawsonJspUtil.print( modifyRecord.getSubmitStatus() ) %></td>
The LawsonJspUtil.print() method takes a String object, checks for null and returns a String object. If the String is null, it outputs a space to fill the column. I could use this method to properly format the column to keep the leading zeroes.

Wrote a small program for you:
   public boolean isString(String s) {
      if (s==null || s.length()==0) return true;
      for (int i=0;i<s.length();i++) {
         if (s.charAt(i)<'0' || s.charAt(i)>'9') return true;
      if (s.startsWith("0")) return true;
      return false;
   }This little gem will return true if a string contains non-numeric digits, it will also return true if the string contains all digits but starts with a zero.
;o)
V.V.
PS: don't forget the dukes if this helps!

ExportCollectionActionListener dropping leading zeroes

We use <af:exportCollectionActionListener> tag to provide users with the ability to export data from some <af:table>s to MS Excel. We have problems with data values like "01.21", for example, which are converted by Excel to "January, 21". Also when there are numeric codes with leading zeros, these zeros are stripped because Excel recognizes the values as numbers. Does anybody know if it is possible to solve this problem easily (for example by specifying somehow the data format of particular columns in Excel export as "Text")?
I did some research on the web and found a creative solution for surrounding the value with some characters in a way that is visible only on the Excel file and not in the HTML page. It looks something like this:
<af:column sortProperty="Header" sortable="true"
headerText="#{bindings.MyReport.hints.MyData.label}"
id="resId1c27">
<af:panelGroupLayout layout="horizontal" id="panel999">
<af:outputText value="=TEXT("" inlineStyle="display:none" id="ot1444"/>
<af:outputText value="#{row.MyData}" id="ot21"/>
<af:outputText value="","0")" inlineStyle="display:none" id="ot222999"/>
</af:panelGroupLayout>
</af:column>
The idea is that in the Excel we end up with an output like this:
=TEXT("MyValue", "0")
The problem is that I'm seeing that output verbatim so it looks like Excel is not recognizing it properly.
Any ideas on how to tell Excel the data type for a particular column?
BTW, I'm coding on Jdev 11.1.3.
Thanks,
MV

Hi,
actually the formatting work around was based on a bug, which got fixed in JDeveloper. So right now we don't have an option to provide Excel formatting
Frank

Grid Download to Excel truncates leading zeros

We are on tools 8.51. The download feature for a Grid now removes the leading zeros when the grid is downloaded to excel. Has anyone found a way to fix this issue ? Thanks in advance

When you download from PS query, the output is created as a true binary xls file, but when you download from a grid in PT 8.51 the output file is html, even though the filename is ps.xls. You can open this file in a text editor.
If you have all numeric data in a column, it will be stored as <td>nnnnnn</td> in the html file. if the column has mixed numeric and text data, it will be stored as <td>=&quot;nnnnnn&quot;</td>. The leading zeroes are still there in both cases, but when excel imports the first form it will convert the result to numeric, the second it will treat as text.
Other than logging a case with Oracle, the only workaround I could think of would be to save the file to disk and run the macro directly against the html. Of course, this would likely be a major redesign.
Regards,
Bob

Report Builder: output to Excel removes leading zeros

I'm trying to use the Report Builder to output a numeric
field to EXCEL , but on numbers that start with zero EXCEL removes
the leading zero's. ex. 00123 becomes 123.
Is there something that I can put in the expression builder
on the field to overcome this.
I've tried concatonating a single quote on the front of the
field but the single quote shows up on the output. I've tried this
on both the SQL and on the expression builder.
I've read on some of the posts where people have tried using
'mso-number-format:"\@'" within a TD tag but I can't seem to get
the syntax right inside the Expression Builder.
Has anybody got any suggestions?

Excel will remove leading zeros in a numeric field because it is treating the column as numeric. Putting a ' in front of the number forces Excel to treat the column as text.

Excel - CSV leading zeros

Hi
I get sent an Excel workbook from a client that I need to save as a CSV file so that I can then use the CSV file with another piece of software. When I save the workbook as a CSV file, then when I open it again, the cells in column A don't retain the
leading zero. In the workbook, the data in column A is entered as '012345.
Any ideas?
Viv
Viv Haig

Hi,
Any update?
Regards,
Melon Chen
Forum Support
Come back and mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
If you have any feedback on our support, please click
here

Exporting Numbers file with leading zeros as csv file

When I export a list of mobile phone numbers with leading zeros (086* etc.) from Numbers as a csv file, the leading zeros are stripped out, although the cells are previously formatted as text. What can I do about this?

"When I export a list of mobile phone numbers with leading zeros (086* etc.) from Numbers as a csv file, the leading zeros are stripped out, although the cells are previously formatted as text. What can I do about this?"
Well, the first thing you could do would be to post your question in one of the forums for Numbers.
Click Discussions to get to the Discussions index page, then the section for the version of iWork you're using, then the Numbers forum in that section.
In AppleWorks (which doesn't offer an opportunity to Save as or Export as csv) I'd force the application to see the phone numbers as text by inserting some non-numeric characters into the string of digits.
Examples: 000-123-4567, 000 123 4567
It may also be a function of the application you are using to open the csv file.
When I did a brief test of the suggestion above with Numbers '09, I got this result on opening the file in Text Edit:
,1234567890,num
,123-456-7890,tex
,0123456789,num
,012-345-6789,tex
,0001234567,num
,000-123-4567,tex
Note that both the examples entered as a string of digits only (num) and those entered with inserted hyphens (tex) kept the leading zeroes. Cell format for the column containing the phone numbers was set to Text.
Regards,
Barry

Field format in Excel - losing leading zero

I have field in query, which is varchar2 in database, but contains only numbers, most of which have leading zeros, i.e. '0123'.
When the report is viewed as html, pdf, or rtf data is shown correctly, '0123', but when viewed in Excel, the data is '123'.
Also, I have a column that is simmilar to this one - varchar2 containing only numbers (SSCC if anyone is familiar). This information is 17 characters long, so instead of '38503341002862100' i get '3,85033E+16' in Excel.
I noticed in both cases that the cell format in Excel is general, instead of text.
How can this be changed?

hi arubelj,
Excel sheet is made specificaly for number calculations.....and each cell which is having data is by default considered as number...and in numbers 0123=123 ,this is the reason why it is not displaying 0 in start..... i had cheched the excel setup options also..... but did not found anything there to change the default column or row type as text....
Regards
Ravi

Export to excel truncates trailing zeros

When we try to export to excel trailing zeros are truncated like this:
In report on BIEE dashboar:
Product----Amount
Product A 327,876
Product B 4,000
Product C 1,278
In the exported excel spreadsheet:
Product A 327,876
Product B 4
Product C 1,278
Any ideas for a solution?

well it is because excel thinks the the comma is a decimal seperator in stead of a thousands seperator.
So check your operating system properties and your excel properties.

SQL SELECT DROPPING LEADING ZEROS

Has anyone run accross the problem of Oracle 10g dropping the leading zeros on a Varchar field when you select the value?? Do you know the fix?

SQL> desc pa_Students;
Name Null? Type
ID NOT NULL NUMBER(22)
SQL> select distinct id from pa_students;
ID
2841
2843
2846
2861
2867
2873
2890
2892
2903
9 rows selected.
SQL> select distinct to_char(id,'000000000') from pa_students;
TO_CHAR(ID,'000000000')
000002841
000002843
000002846
000002861
000002867
000002873
000002890
000002892
000002903
9 rows selected.
SQL> select distinct lpad(id,9,'0') from pa_students;
LPAD(ID,9,'0')
000002841
000002843
000002846
000002861
000002867
000002873
000002890
000002892
000002903
9 rows selected.
The problem is that I need to first have the leading zeros. I also need to select multiple fields, but
because of all of the extra spaces to the right of the data, everything I pick gets wrapped around. This
never happened until we moved to an Oracle 10g database.

Export to Excel - data with leading zeros

Does anyone have any tips or tricks for running a query then exporting to Excel without dropping leading zeros from the data?
Examples: numeric Item codes with leading zeros, telephone numbers that have been entered with no spaces.
Regards,
Douglas McDove

< Font Color="RED" Size = 3 Face=Verdana>
I liked the challenge and therefore.......I got this for you
</Font>
SELECT CHAR(28) + T0.CardCode [BP Code\] FROM [dbo\].[OCRD\] T0
SELECT CHAR(29) + T0.CardCode [BP Code\] FROM [dbo\].[OCRD\] T0
SELECT CHAR(30) + T0.CardCode [BP Code\] FROM [dbo\].[OCRD\] T0
SELECT CHAR(31) + T0.CardCode [BP Code\] FROM [dbo\].[OCRD\] T0
Any of the above 4 should work. T0.CardCode is the database field I tested, you can substitute this with any database field and it should work.
Regards
Suda

How to retain leading zeros in an excel sheet

Hi,
In my application I need to export the response from a struts action class to an excel sheet. I have done the coding but while exporting to the excel , the leading zeros are getting truncated. If the value is '01' it is displayed as '1' only.
                response.setContentType("application/text");
                         response.setHeader("Content-disposition",
                                   "Attachment;filename=\"export.xls\"");
                         response.getOutputStream().println(data);
                         response.getOutputStream().flush();This is the code which I am using to export all the data to the excel.Here the variable data is a String .
Kindly help on this issue.
Thanks in advance...
Edited by: 2569 on Jan 10, 2008 8:59 PM
Edited by: 2569 on Jan 10, 2008 9:51 PM

2569 wrote:
I tried that way also, but its not working. I have defined all the values as strings only. Thanks for ur replyWhich API are you using to write excel files? You can try to surround the numeric string value with singlequotes (or escaped doublequotes)String numericString = "'01'";so that Excel interprets it as string.

Export to Excel -leading 0's

I have to download data from internal table to Excel sheet.
In the internal table i have a field xxx- that is type numc10
I have a value for this field-000001234
Now when i export this to excel sheet, leading zeroes are removed and the output is-1234
How can i make sure that the output in excel is displayed as 0000001234.
This is very importnant for our project.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Narendra,
See the exact code for leading zero's in XL File.
REPORT ZTEST3 line-size 400.
Place holder to keep leading zero's
DATA : V_CHAR(1) TYPE C VALUE ''''.
Internal table for MAKT Table
data : begin of i_makt occurs 0,
       matnr like makt-matnr,
       maktx like makt-maktx,
       end of i_makt.
Internal table for XL File
See Material number is 18 char but i am declaring here 20 char length
data : begin of i_file occurs 0,
       matnr(20) type c,
       maktx like makt-maktx,
       end of i_file.
start-of-selection.
select matnr maktx from makt into table i_makt.
loop at i_makt.
CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT'
EXPORTING
    INPUT         = i_makt-matnr
IMPORTING
   OUTPUT        = i_makt-matnr
CONCATENATE V_CHAR i_makt-matnr INTO i_file-matnr.
i_file-maktx = i_makt-maktx.
append i_file.
clear i_file.
endloop.
CALL FUNCTION 'WS_DOWNLOAD'
EXPORTING
BIN_FILESIZE                  = ' '
CODEPAGE                      = ' '
    FILENAME                      =
    'C:\Documents and Settings\smaramreddy\Desktop\fff.xls'
   FILETYPE                      = 'ASC'
MODE                          = ' '
WK1_N_FORMAT                  = ' '
WK1_N_SIZE                    = ' '
WK1_T_FORMAT                  = ' '
WK1_T_SIZE                    = ' '
COL_SELECT                    = ' '
COL_SELECTMASK                = ' '
NO_AUTH_CHECK                 = ' '
IMPORTING
FILELENGTH                    =
TABLES
    DATA_TAB                      = i_file
FIELDNAMES                    =
EXCEPTIONS
   FILE_OPEN_ERROR               = 1
   FILE_WRITE_ERROR              = 2
   INVALID_FILESIZE              = 3
   INVALID_TYPE                  = 4
   NO_BATCH                      = 5
   UNKNOWN_ERROR                 = 6
   INVALID_TABLE_WIDTH           = 7
   GUI_REFUSE_FILETRANSFER       = 8
   CUSTOMER_ERROR                = 9
   OTHERS                        = 10
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
        WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.
Please close thread.
Reward Points if it is helpful
Thanks
Seshu

Leading zeros are not displaying in the excel

Hi Experts,
Leading zeros are not displaying in the excel
Here is the situation:
I have developed one report, which will create the file in Application server with TAB deleimeted. After that I am sending that file via email in the excel format using Email functionality FM.
Normally our material numbers will start with zeros.
But when I check the email excel file , leading zeros are not displaying.
Even I checked the application server (AL11) file, zeros are there.
I thought program FM was wrong and I tried it manually by downloading the file into excel. Eventhough it is suppressing zeros.
Could you please advise, how to display leading zeros to the material number in excel file.
Thanks in advance
Raghu

Application server file showing zeros infront of the material number.
1200# 0012401387# XXXXXXXX
Once file created in app server, I am using one custom FM to send that output in excel format / txt format via email.
when I send txt file via email, I am getting leading zeros. But when I send xls file via email, I am not getting zeros.
I checked custom FUNCTION MODULE . No mistakes in that.
===
Sudhir,
As you said, I passed ( ' ) single quote infront of the material number. When I check the excel file, single quote also displaying like this '0000100.
Application server file showing like below
1200# '0012401387# XXXXXXXX
===
Could you please advise anyone how can we acheive this.
Thanks

Export to Excel dropping leading zeroes

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for