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Export to Excel does not format date column properly

leo.c — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 09:22:14 GMT

Hi Devbrat Ghosh,

Currently we don't support this feature yet. When you export to Excel, the DotNet/C# date formats are not the same as the ones in Excel, so the grid cannot export the format along with the data.
For your information, you could format the date into your desired format using dataformatstring in the OnExport server-side event handler.
Example:

protected void WebGrid1_Export(object sender, ExportEventArgs e){
    e.ReportInfo.IsEnableDataFormatString = true;
    e.Table.Columns.GetNamedItem("OrderDate").DataFormatString = "dd/MM/yyyy";
}

Best Regards,
Leo

Export to Excel does not format date column properly

Devbrat — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:37:10 GMT

Hi,

We are using Webgrid version 2014 R2 . Whenever export from Grid as Excel is choosed that time Excel date column appears string inside Excel.

We found that in exported Excel date columns have extra quote as prefix in date values therefore it works as string in Excel . For example date 11/2/2014 entered in Excel as'11/2/2014 .

It is very annoying that after exporting we have to manually fix date columns.

Please suggest a solution for this.

thanks and regards

Dev