Web Service Connection Date Input Values Converted to Number

I am using a Web Service Connection that has an input value called 'ModifiedOn' that is a date type. The problem that I have is that instead of sending a date string like '2008-08-04' it sends a number '39665' as the input to the web service method instead. Is there a way to force a date string to be returned instead of the number?
Here is the XML that is being sent to the web service method from Xcelsius:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:n0="http://tempuri.org/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <soap:Header />
   <soap:Body>
      <n0:SaveScenerio>
         <n0:dash>
            <n0:Scenerio CreatedBy="1" MedianIncome="54000" ModifiedBy="-1" Deleted="false" Population="56001" Title="Scenerio 5" ModelId="14" Year="2008" Description="" ScenerioId="5" SystemName="Scenerio 5" CreatedOn="39665" ModifiedOn="39665">
               <n0:Model ModuleId="" Description="" ModifiedBy="-1" Deleted="false" CreatedBy="1" CreatedOn="39665" Title="My First Model EDITED 2" ModifiedOn="39665" ModelId="14">
               </n0:Model>
               <n0:RateRevenueResidential RateRevenueTypeId="" CreatedBy="1" NumOfCustomers="34000" NumNewCustomers="12000" RateRevenueId="" Deleted="false" MonthlyAvgUsage="10000" HookupCharge="74" VolumeCharge="0" VolumeRate="0.36" ScenerioId="" ModifiedBy="-1" CreatedOn="39665" FixedRate="20" ModifiedOn="39665">
                  <n0:RateRevenueType RateRevenueTypeId="" Description="">
                  </n0:RateRevenueType>
               </n0:RateRevenueResidential>
               <n0:RateRevenueCommercial RateRevenueTypeId="" CreatedBy="1" NumOfCustomers="150" NumNewCustomers="12002" RateRevenueId="" Deleted="false" MonthlyAvgUsage="20000" HookupCharge="75" VolumeCharge="0" VolumeRate="0.37" ScenerioId="" ModifiedBy="-1" CreatedOn="39665" FixedRate="30" ModifiedOn="39665">
                  <n0:RateRevenueType RateRevenueTypeId="" Description="">
                  </n0:RateRevenueType>
               </n0:RateRevenueCommercial>
               <n0:RateRevenueIndustrial RateRevenueTypeId="" CreatedBy="1" NumOfCustomers="34" NumNewCustomers="12003" RateRevenueId="" Deleted="false" MonthlyAvgUsage="30000" HookupCharge="76" VolumeCharge="0" VolumeRate="0.38" ScenerioId="" ModifiedBy="-1" CreatedOn="39665" FixedRate="40" ModifiedOn="39665">
                  <n0:RateRevenueType RateRevenueTypeId="" Description="">
                  </n0:RateRevenueType>
               </n0:RateRevenueIndustrial>
               <n0:RateRevenueGovernmental RateRevenueTypeId="" CreatedBy="1" NumOfCustomers="6" NumNewCustomers="12004" RateRevenueId="" Deleted="false" MonthlyAvgUsage="40000" HookupCharge="77" VolumeCharge="0" VolumeRate="0.39" ScenerioId="" ModifiedBy="-1" CreatedOn="39665" FixedRate="50" ModifiedOn="39665">
                  <n0:RateRevenueType RateRevenueTypeId="" Description="">
                  </n0:RateRevenueType>
               </n0:RateRevenueGovernmental>
               <n0:RateRevenueOther RateRevenueTypeId="" CreatedBy="1" NumOfCustomers="10" NumNewCustomers="12005" RateRevenueId="" Deleted="false" MonthlyAvgUsage="50000" HookupCharge="78" VolumeCharge="0" VolumeRate="0.4" ScenerioId="" ModifiedBy="-1" CreatedOn="39665" FixedRate="60" ModifiedOn="39665">
                  <n0:RateRevenueType RateRevenueTypeId="" Description="">
                  </n0:RateRevenueType>
               </n0:RateRevenueOther>
            </n0:Scenerio>
            <n0:ErrorMessage>
            </n0:ErrorMessage>
            <n0:Forecast EstSystemCapacityYear4="" Industrial="0" Other="0" RateRevenue="0" EstSystemCapacityYear5="" HookupRevenue="0" CreatedBy="1" OtherRevenue="0" ModifiedBy="-1" CapitalFunds="0" ModifiedOn="39665" OperationsNMaintenanceExpenses="0" GeneralNAdminExpenses="0" OtherExpenses="0" Governmental="0" Deleted="false" ResidentialRates="0" CapitalImprvFundsYear2="0" CapitalImprvFundsYear3="0" CapitalImprvFundsYear4="0" CapitalImprvFundsYear5="0" CapitalExpYear2="0" CapitalExpYear3="0" CapitalExpYear4="0" CustResidential="0" CapitalExpYear5="0" Year="2008" EstSystemCapacityYear1="" Commercial="0" EstSystemCapacityYear2="" CreatedOn="39665" ScenerioId="" EstSystemCapacityYear3="" Mhi="0">
            </n0:Forecast>
            <n0:Revenue CapitalDWSRF="5600" AnnualHookup="4561076" CapitalGovLoan="5600.01" CapitalBusinessLoan="5600.02" CreatedBy="1" CapitalGrant="5601.03" AnnualOperationg="14292490.399999999" ModifiedBy="-1" Deleted="false" OtherInterestIncome="5600" OtherRevenue="5600" CapitalWithdraw="5602.04" ScenerioId="" CapitalOther="5603.05" OtherFeesNServiceCharges="5600" AnnualRate="9731414.399999999" CreatedOn="39665" AnnualOther="16800" ModifiedOn="39665">
            </n0:Revenue>
            <n0:Expense OpsMartriesNSupplies="1000000" CapitalNonFacility="1000000" AdminEngineering="1000000" ModifiedBy="-1" OpsMonitoring="1000000" Deleted="false" CreatedBy="1" OpsTransportation="1000000" AdminConservation="1000000" ModifiedOn="39665" CapitalDebtService="1000000" OpsMisc="1000000" AdminMisc="1000000" OpsUnaccountedWater="1000000" OtherDepreciation="1000000" OpsSalariesNBenefits="1000000" AdminSalareisNBenefits="1000000" OtherDeductionsFeesExp="1000000" OpsPowerNUtility="1000000" AdminOfficeSupplies="1000000" CapitalNewFacilities="1000000" AdminInsurance="1000000" ScenerioId="" OpsChemicalNTreatment="1000000" CapitalOther="1000000" AdminLegalNAccounting="1000000" CreatedOn="39665" CapitalReplacement="1000000" CapitalLeakageRepair="1000000">
            </n0:Expense>
         </n0:dash>
      </n0:SaveScenerio>
   </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
Edited by: Aaron Jackson on Aug 7, 2008 10:44 PM

Hi Aaron,
You may want to try formatting the cell of "ModifiedOn" to a TEXT format instead of date to get yyyy/mm/dd formatting to appear.
It seems that Xcelsius automatically converts any type of date-specific formatting (as specified from Excel) to a date serial, which is what you are seeing here.
Hope that works.

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You can get the server certificate from the vendor who is providing the web service or you can also download the certificate from the browser and save it in base64 binary encoded format to a file and use that. In my example I will be using Firefox to export.
if you have fire fox, then on the left side before the URL Address bar there will be a lock icon, click on view certificate, select the details tab, select the *.service- now.com and click on export, in the dialog box, select the Save as type X.509 Certificate (PEM), you can save this with any name on your machine.
Now go to the JobServer machine, go to %LINK_DIR%\ext\ folder, open axis2.xml in notepad,
since it's https uncomment the following tag (transportReceiver)

it should look line something below
<transportReceiver name="https" class="axis2_http_receiver">
<parameter name="port" locked="false">6060</parameter>
<parameter name="exposeHeaders" locked="true">false</parameter>
</transportReceiver>
uncomment the following tag (transportSender) and comment out the parameter KEY_FILE and SSL_PASSPHRASE, enter the complete location of the certificate that you saved from the browser in the SERVER_CERT parameter. you can save the certificate also in this folder

this should look like
<transportSender name="https" class="axis2_http_sender">
<parameter name="PROTOCOL" locked="false">HTTP/1.1</parameter>
<parameter name="xml-declaration" insert="false"/>
</transportSender>
<parameter name="SERVER_CERT">enter the certificate path</parameter>


save this file and open this file is browser to make sure that the XML is valid
****How to set up multiple axis files****
Creating a Datastore
Select Project -> New- > Datastore
          Datastore name: Applicable Name
          Datastore Type: Web Service
          Web Service URL: https://<instance>.service-now.com/incident_list.do?WSDL
          Advance <<
          User name: *****
          Password: ******
          Axis2/c config file path: \Program Files (x86)\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Data           Services\ext\Service_now

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Hi Jarrod,
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I installed Xcelsius 2008 SP3 over SP2 and some of my input values for my web service connection were not being built into the XML request. I then rolled back to 2008 SP2 and all was fine. Not a thing i tried could fix it, and it was not all the input values just some of them and the same ones each time. Perhaps i installed different Xcesius suites: the SP2 one i have is trial version and has a black BO splash, the SP3 one has a yellow SAP splash. SP3 has some funky enhancements so i would certainly like to go that way. Any ideas? Or ideas as to how i could get this into BO support for troubleshooting?
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By mistake I posted to this thread. Removing my message.
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Hi everybody,
I'm trying to install a connection between Xcelsius and a QaaWS I created, but it doesn't work. In the list of the different connections available in the Xcelsius Connections Manager, the "QaaWS" connections doesn't appear. Instead of that I can choose the "Web Service Connections" type.
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Thanks.

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Edited by: Anthony Jones on Jan 8, 2009 12:18 PM

Hi Anthony,
You might check that type of the licence type of the user QaaWSPrincipal. I had a problem where the QaaWSPrincipal user was Concurrent Access License while my server was Named User only. Switching to Named User resolved the problem.
However, I am not sure that this is your issue as the you have one QaaWAS url working. YOu might want to check your URL is available
try
http://<name of server>:<Tomcat port number>/dswsbobje/qaawsservices
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http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi3-1_query_as_a_web_service_en.pdf
Hope this helps
Alan

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Regards

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