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Posted on by Lewkir

So I am trying to make a unique ID out of a date and need to conviert it to a number ideally in the format yyymmdd.

 

I can get the date picker to display this way but when I try to put it in a label it converts it back to dd/mm/yyyy.

 

When I try:

Text(FromDate,"yyyymmdd")

Powerapps still displays it dd/mm/yyyy and converts the code to:

Text(FromDate,"[$-en-US]yyyymmdd")

Not sure why this is happening.

 

Can anyone help me out?

 

Cheers,

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    R3dKap 1,594 on at

    Hi @Lewkir,

    That's normal behavior from PowerApps. When using the Text() function, if you specify a format (like "yyyymmdd"), PowerApps will automatically add the "[$-en-US]" prefix to your format to tell the system what locale format to use. But in the end, you get the same result.

    If you set the Default property of a text input control to Text(FromDate,"[$-en-US]yyyymmdd"), it will show your date with that format. You can then convert it to a integer using the Value() function.

    Hope this helped,

    Emmanuel

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    Lewkir on at

    Yep this worked.

     

    Thanks.

  • cederbusch Profile Picture
    cederbusch 16 on at

    I can´t get this to work. Followed per instruction, still shows "yyyy-mm-dd". 

    Eventually used Substitute to remove all the "-".

    Substitute(Text(FromDateDatePicker;"[$-us-US]yyyymmdd");"-";"")
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    NAVEEN1 9 on at

    thank u cederbusch 🙂 it worked for me but i used   Substitute(Text(DATE),"/","")

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    Parnicaboda 2 on at

    can we do this on textbox or have to do on datepicker's default date?

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