topic Re: Get Date Created of CSV File in App Development

Get Date Created of CSV File

Databayo — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:28:37 GMT

Hi Everyone,

How do I get the "Date Created" of a CSV file that I have imported?

I've thoroughly googled the problem and most people just suggest using the FileTime() function to get the date modified field, but I need to get the date created field of my file.

Thank you 🙂

Re: Get Date Created of CSV File

Saravanan_Desingh — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:04:05 GMT

Try FileTime([ filename ])

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/April2020/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/Scripting/FileFunctions/FileTime.htm

Re: Get Date Created of CSV File

Databayo — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:12:53 GMT

Thanks for your response.

As I said in my original post the FileTime function gives the file modification date, where-as I want to get the file creation date.

Re: Get Date Created of CSV File

marcus_sommer — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:34:31 GMT

AFAIK there is no inbuilt functionality to get the creation date of a file. Means you need to use external features like VBS: VBScript - DateCreated Property (vbsedit.com).

In View you could use a macro-function within the script. In Sense I don't know if VBS or others could be implemented in this way. If not you may trigger it as an external batch which stored the information in any txt but AFAIK you will need to enable the legacy-mode for it.

- Marcus

Re: Get Date Created of CSV File

Databayo — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:19:17 GMT

I believe you're right that there is no inbuilt functionality to get the creation date.

Unfortunately though the VBS cannot be implemented in Qlik Sense.

Fortunately, I found out my filetypes will have epoch dates in the headers which I can use.