I would like to display a datetime from an SQL database in a table but i believe its giving me the date as a string despite seemingly recognizing it as a date in the dataset editor.
(the data type provided for it from the database is as datetime)
What does the “columns” property of your table look like?
It is empty, is that a problem?
I would add the columns you want in that property and use the render and dateFormat settings to tell the table how you want the date displayed
You need to tell the field property the name of the column of data it is looking at.
Thank you sir that did the trick
As a side note, use the header section in there to change the appearance/text of the title etc of each column in the table.
Look at the columns properties here for all the info you need:
https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Perspective+-+Table
That's normal behaviour. Define all columns you wish to see from your query and then adjust the rendering of the data to display as date.