Receivables Aging By General Ledger Account Report - Number Of Characters for Invoice Number is incorrect (Doc ID 2583049.1)

Last updated on MAY 24, 2020

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Symptoms

Receivables Aging by General Ledger Account Report - Number of characters is wrong for the invoice number column when the output is in Excel format.
The invoice number length is coming up as 9 characters long, when in reality the number of characters is 6.

Ex: Invoice number = 100123
Length of column Invoice Number shows as 9 instead of 6 on the excel output.
Excel formula: Len(col) shows as 9 in this case, while the value is only 6 char long.


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The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

1. Submit Receivables Aging by General Ledger Account Report
2. Publish the report in Excel format
3. Invoice Number value length is incorrect.

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