https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Date-to-string-conversion/m-p/2321448#M91478 Hi, <BR />Here is a built-in method TalendDate.formatDate(String pattern, java.util.Date date) in tMap to convert date to string. <BR />Please see my screenshot <BR />In addition, there is a component tConvertType which allows specific conversions at runtime from one Talend java type to another. <BR /> <BR />Best regards <BR />Sabrina <BR /> <BR /> <span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="0683p000009MGjA.png"><img src="https://community.qlik.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/134946i22A8F946C4949F9B/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="0683p000009MGjA.png" alt="0683p000009MGjA.png" /></span> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:17:16 GMT Anonymous 2015-12-14T10:17:16Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Date-to-string-conversion/m-p/2321447#M91477 <P>Hi,<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR />I'm new to talend.<BR />I have a column with date data type and i need to store it as a string in the target.<BR />How to do that??<BR /><BR /><BR />Thanks in advance</P> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 09:34:19 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Date-to-string-conversion/m-p/2321447#M91477 Anonymous 2015-12-14T09:34:19Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Date-to-string-conversion/m-p/2321448#M91478 Hi, <BR />Here is a built-in method TalendDate.formatDate(String pattern, java.util.Date date) in tMap to convert date to string. <BR />Please see my screenshot <BR />In addition, there is a component tConvertType which allows specific conversions at runtime from one Talend java type to another. <BR /> <BR />Best regards <BR />Sabrina <BR /> <BR /> <span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="0683p000009MGjA.png"><img src="https://community.qlik.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/134946i22A8F946C4949F9B/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="0683p000009MGjA.png" alt="0683p000009MGjA.png" /></span> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:17:16 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Date-to-string-conversion/m-p/2321448#M91478 Anonymous 2015-12-14T10:17:16Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Date-to-string-conversion/m-p/2321449#M91479 thank you sabrina Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:14:01 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Date-to-string-conversion/m-p/2321449#M91479 Anonymous 2015-12-14T12:14:01Z