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DataTime Tool - User Defined Input Formats

Rather than giving the users a big list of different date formats to choose from, allow the user to construct their own format with syntax of the incoming date that they are dealing with.

Currently I need to do a string function moving dates around to match a predefined syntax...
2 Comments
ARich
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)
Status changed to: Under Review

Hi Ben,

 

Thanks for the feedback!

 

We've gotten this request quite frequently and have never implemented it because there's a pretty easy workaround (using the DateTimeParse function or DateTimeFormat function in the Formula tool).

 

However, this is clearly a popular request and we're now reviewing it to see if we can get it into a future release.

 

 

 

Thanks,

Alex 

ARich
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)
Status changed to: Implemented