Date & Time from excel data source not showing gallery

[sikuness]

Hi Guys & Gals,

I have been building an interactive table using gallery in my powerapps. The datasource is an excel business online workbook. I am able to pull all text fields in no problem, but whenever I try pulling in a date or a time field it just gives me blank data. 

I have also tried using the text formula (text(thisitem.date,"dd/mmm/yy")) but nothing works. I have provided couple of screenshots, after googling this I am still unable to figure out a solution. 

[dyee · Accepted solution]

In my experience, PowerApps doesn't handle date fields from Excel very well.  I'd suggest switching your datasource to a sharepoint list (upload the excel document there) or make number columns using the same data and recreate it in PowerApps.  

[RandyHayes]

@sikuness 

It is imperative that your Excel columns that contain date information be formatted as Date Cells.  If this is not specifically stated and met in your Excel file, then PowerApps will not convert correctly from the date in the cells.

What is most concerning is that your table appears to have differences in something in the bottom 4 cells in your list.  These type of things can be impactful as to how PowerApps recognizes the date.

Please recheck all of your column formats.  Remove the Column that PowerApps generates in the sheet.

Remove the datasource from your app and then add it back in once the above is complete.

I hope this is helpful for you.

[sikuness]

@dyee I was hoping to avoid this, but yeah gone with this option. So more work with power automate to get data into excel. Not worth spending time trying to get excel to work. 

[emcleod3]

Hi, having same issue. All date data from Excel is not appearing in PowerApps.

As part of testing I created a simple Excel table with a few columns set to date (short date format) and in PowerApps created a sample canvas app with varying objects (form, data list, gallery). When adding fields to these objects, it is recognizing the Excel columns as dates because the automated controls that are applied in PowerApps have calendars but when viewing the data records, the date fields are always empty.

Please help!