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excel name with date solution

Excel Name with Date

If there's a file (like an excel table) that you continually work on in KNIME and want to save with the new/current date in the file name, you can do this by using the variable string manipulation nodes.

Adding the Current Date to an Excel File NameIf you want to save a file with the current date in it's name, the following is one way to do this. generate dummy datacreate a pathwhere the file will be storedget the currentdatesave as variable choose a file nameto which the date willbe appendedwrite yourdata to that pathData Generator Create File/FolderVariables Create Date&TimeRange Table Rowto Variable String Manipulation(Variable) Excel Writer Adding the Current Date to an Excel File NameIf you want to save a file with the current date in it's name, the following is one way to do this. generate dummy datacreate a pathwhere the file will be storedget the currentdatesave as variable choose a file nameto which the date willbe appendedwrite yourdata to that pathData Generator Create File/FolderVariables Create Date&TimeRange Table Rowto Variable String Manipulation(Variable) Excel Writer

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Created by: karenabraham
Created at: 2022-06-20
On NodePit since: 2023-02-22
Last update: 2026-01-08
Created with KNIME version: v4.6.1

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