How to populate Manager field(reference type) and effective date from excel sheet when using Glide Excel Parser.

Rahul Raja Sami
Tera Guru

I am using Glide Excel parser and Cart API to create requests from the excel.

everything works fine but cannot populate Manager and effective date fields from Excel 

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/ ) {

    var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_attachment');
    gr.addQuery('table_sys_id', current.sys_id);
    gr.query();
    gs.log('request ---------------' + current.sys_id);
    if (gr.next()) {
 
        var parser = new sn_impex.GlideExcelParser();
        var attachment = new GlideSysAttachment();
        // use attachment sys id of an excel file
        var attachmentStream = attachment.getContentStream(gr.sys_id);

        parser.parse(attachmentStream);

        //retrieve the column headers
        var headers = parser.getColumnHeaders();
        var header1 = headers[0];
        var header2 = headers[1];
        var header3 = headers[2];
        var header4 = headers[3];
        var header5 = headers[4];
        var header6 = headers[5];
        var header7 = headers[6];
        var header8 = headers[7];
        var header9 = headers[8];
        var header10 = headers[9];

        while (parser.next()) {
            var row = parser.getRow();
            var message = "";
            var gr1 = GlideRecord('sys_user');
            gr1.addQuery('name', row[header3]);
            gr1.query();
            if (gr1.next()) {

                var success = true;
                var cartId = GlideGuid.generate(null);
                var cart = new Cart(cartId); //calling the cart API  
                var item = cart.addItem('52d4943187b6e810d0d4ca27cebb3521');
                cart.setVariable(item, 'requested_by', gr1.sys_id);
                cart.setVariable(item, 'first_name', row[header2]);
                cart.setVariable(item, 'last_name', row[header3]);
                cart.setVariable(item, 'access', 'AD');
                cart.setVariable(item, 'off_user_email', row[header4]);
                cart.setVariable(item, 'manager', row[header9]);
                cart.setVariable(item, 'effective_date', row[header1]);

                var rc = cart.placeOrder();
             
            }
        }
    } 
})(current, previous);

the excel sheet contains 10 columns. (9th column is Manager and 1st column is Date).

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

@Rahul Raja Samineni did you try changing the type of the column ?

also try mapping it in the exact format the system accepts like usually date field accepts the format like 

2022-03-15.

So in your excel try changing the format to 2022-06-14 and try

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31 REPLIES 31

sorry i changed it to yyyy-mm-dd only.

cart.setVariable(item, 'effective_dates', row[header1]);

after changing the type in the sheet to yyyy-mm-dd, i have used the above code and it is populating the respective values correctly.

thanks for the time and effort mohith.

@Rahul Raja Samineni great !

Glad it worked .if its solved can you mark the answer correct and close the thread so that it helps future users with saem query

Ankur Bawiskar
Tera Patron
Tera Patron

Hi,

are you not getting date using this row[header10]

excel contains date/time or date?

regards
Ankur

Regards,
Ankur
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hi Ankur

It is displaying today's date but not the date from the sheet.

the sheet's date is of Date type 08/09/2022