Re: excel to as400

An issue I've seen pop up over the years is where the FDF has an error in 
it,
it's missing one of the format chars.  The below example worked to upload
user entered text & numeric data.  Let's face it certain people are far 
more
productive using Excel - plus you don't tie-up a MAPICS license for the 
task!

In the example below, the second line has a '1' in it, the signifies it 
includes text and numeric.
Sometimes the '2' is missing, simply edit the file with notepad, add the 
'2', save and run.


PCFDF
PCFT 12          <----------------------   sometimes the '2' is missing, 
why?!?!?!?!
PCFO 1,1,1,1,1
PCFL SLCPRT 1 35
PCFL OEMDST 1 1
PCFL PB1 2 9
PCFL PRICE1 2 14/3
PCFL PB2 2 9
PCFL PRICE2 2 14/3
PCFL PB3 2 9
PCFL PRICE3 2 14/3
PCFL PB4 2 9
PCFL PRICE4 2 14/3
PCFL PB5 2 9
PCFL PRICE5 2 14/3
PCFL PB6 2 9
PCFL PRICE6 2 14/3
PCFL PB7 2 9
PCFL PRICE7 2 14/3
PCFL PB8 2 9
PCFL PRICE8 2 14/3
 






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Morning everyone. 
 
  I am trying to take an excel spreadsheet that I initially created from 
the 400 with data. Some data was keyed inot columns that I provided. When 
I try to transfer the spreadsheets back to the 400 I am getting errors 
that data in this field is incorrect or does not match the PC data type. I 
think what has happened is the users keyed into a flds that they were not 
meant to. I have tried using the data transfer off the client access 
session. I have also tried using the data transfer option on the 
speadsheet itself. Neither works. 
  Hope this makes sense.....
 
  Is there a way to prevent this??? 
 
  Thanks in advance...
 
  Pete Olshavsky
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