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I have an excel source file which I am trying to import into a journal transaction with a transaction date of 2022-08-11 11:31:31.770

I have left the definition of my data provider field as string, in my import scenario definition I have tried various combinations of ideas from other articles most recently using 

=CDate(Substring([SourceTransactionDate],6,2) + '/' + Substring([SourceTransactionDate],9,2) + '/' + Substring([SourceTransactionDate],1,4))

and when I run my import scenario I get the following error

An error has occurred while the CDate(BinaryOp + (BinaryOp + (BinaryOp + (BinaryOp + (Substring(Identifier(SourceTransactionDate), Const(6), Const(2)), Const(/)), Substring(Identifier(SourceTransactionDate), Const(9), Const(2))), Const(/)), Substring(Identifier(SourceTransactionDate), Const(1), Const(4)))) function was being executed: 'String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.'

Thanks in advance

Best answer by RoyceLithgo

Substring is indexed from 0 not 1. Try this:

=CDate(Substring([SourceTransactionDate],5,2) + '/' + Substring([SourceTransactionDate],8,2) + '/' + Substring([SourceTransactionDate],0,4))

 

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Substring is indexed from 0 not 1. Try this:

=CDate(Substring([SourceTransactionDate],5,2) + '/' + Substring([SourceTransactionDate],8,2) + '/' + Substring([SourceTransactionDate],0,4))

 

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  • August 12, 2022

Thank you for this suggestion, sadly I still get an error (albeit a different one) “Object must be of type DateTime”

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  • August 15, 2022

FWIW, I think you may need to add a format statement. Without it, Acumatica may be expecting Time data too.  

@community If anyone has documented where and how to use format statements, can you share? This piece of info seems to be elusive.

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  • August 19, 2022

Oops! I had mapped the transaction date to BatchNumber > TransactionDate rather than TransactionDate.

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