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Importing error on item numbers and payref

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1 year 6 months ago #1 by samsodien
Hi,Thanks for the excellent work on the importing functions. I am however having a problem where some of the imported lines are showing as per below line item 10 ... could you perhaps assist as to why it does this  92/2/204 Mirror not exceeding 0,5m"² from wall No1065.89           Taking down and removing roofs, floors, panelling, ceilings, partitions, etc            10[color=

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1 year 6 months ago - 1 year 6 months ago #2 by Ian
Hi Samsodien,

This is most likely due to using structured page numbering in WinQS.  Anything other than a pure numeric value could lead to problems in this column when importing into Excel.

Try changing the page number format in WinQS to numeric prior to doing the export, and let me know how it goes.



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Ian
Last edit: 1 year 6 months ago by Ian. Reason: Clarification and image cleanup.

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1 year 6 months ago #3 by samsodien
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Hi Ian,

I checked the page number is numeric, for instance the ref in winqs is 2/2/11 when importing it is changing automatically to a date showing as 2011/02/02

Do you perhaps know a work around?

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Samsodien

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1 year 6 months ago #4 by samsodien
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Hi Ian

I think I may have found the error, the pay ref column when importing into excel is taking the column data format as "general" and thus gets recognised as a date value. If when importing this can be recognised as text it will work

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1 year 6 months ago - 1 year 6 months ago #5 by Ian
Hi Samsodien,

Thanks for pointing that out.

The next update, which should be available on the 15th, will import the DOC REF and PAY REF columns as text.

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Ian
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1 year 6 months ago #6 by samsodien
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Hi Ian

Great stuff! Thank you for the assistance

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Ibrahim

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