How to convert text name in upper case to lower case

RebeccaL

I have a list with employee names all in upper case. E.g. DANIEL SMITH

How can I convert these names in Anaplan to Daniel Smith (upper case on the first letter then lower case for the remaining)

andrewtye

Hi @RebeccaL - you'd need to use a combination of Left, Right, etc to get the desired result. There is this very old idea about having Proper() as a function within the platform.

PROPER() Functionality

Misbah

Nov 22, 2019

When we are dealing with Text formats in Anaplan it is case sensitive and it throws unexpected results if we don't do it exactly the way it should be.

 

Although we can achieve this by amalgamation of LOWER, UPPER, FIND, LEFT & RIGHT functions. Having PROPER function would greatly reduce the need to do so.

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RebeccaL

Thank you, I think the function of Proper would be really helpful in Anaplan. Calculations can be used to get around this when it is a simple case of first and last name. I have some employee names where they have 2 middles name so it gets a bit complicated.

Kanishq17

Hey , you can use lower(name(item)) to convert it to lower case

Dikshant

@Kanishq17 I guess he needs it to be in initial case, where you capitalize the first letter of every word. At present I don't think so we have any functions like that, we have UPPER, LOWER, LEFT, RIGHT functions to do the transformations.

SriNitya

Daniel Smith - upper case on the first letter then lower case for the remaining we don't have any function for such conversion in Anaplan currently.