The Problem

Date information from the source is represented as a text string, with the format YYYYMMDD. We need the information to be represented as a date-time data type in Sisense.

The Solution

This will utilize a custom field to convert the value. The original date value needs to be defined in the ElastiCube as a text data type. The following code gets the correct results:

CreateDate(
ToInt(Substring([Date Text],1,4)),
ToInt(Substring([Date Text],5,2)),
ToInt(Substring([Date Text],7,2))
)

The attached .ecdata file provides data that demonstrates this functionality.

Download:

TextToDate.ecdata

See Also

Convert Integer Date to Date-time format