Good morning i have been having a perplexing issue when writing a date to tab and shape. (FME 2015.1.1.0 build 15515, date formatter version 3)
From my source data my date is coming though as a string YYYYMMDDHHSSSSSS and using the date formatter it’s a simple matter to turn the date into YYYY-MM-DD.
I check It is changing the date correcting via an inspector on the formatter and it is writing correctly.
The issue is that when I write to a shape or tab output with the field type to set to date the data will not write correctly, Ie I get a null attribute.
If I write the date YYYYMMDD then the attribute is written correctly.
If I change the shape table field type to char then the YYYY-MM-DD then the date is written correctly.
This is very perplexing…
Cheers
Q