Dec 14, 2022 06:40 AM
Hey guys
I have a brain drain problem with how I should set up a dynamic date formula, I have 2 tables in a base, one for odd weeks and one for even weeks. They both just contain 5 records, one for each workday. I have separate fields where the current date is shown, current weekday, current week number and if the current week is odd or even (it shows 0 for even and 1 for even). Now to the tricky part.
I want to show in a field in the even table (week 50), lets say today Wednesday the 14th of dec. I want todays date to be visible in that field, on Tuesday the 13th should be visible and on tomorrow the 15th and so on. And I also want if the dates in the odd table shows next weeks date, and then when it becomes an odd week the even table updates the dates to the week after the odd. Any of you geniuses have a solution in mind?
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Dec 16, 2022 01:43 AM
It seems I managed it working.
Calendar formula
IF(Today <= Date, Date, DATEADD(Date, 14, "day"))
Date formula
DATEADD(Today,Autonumber-WEEKDAY(Today),"day")
Today formula
Today()
Dec 14, 2022 07:23 AM
@Jesper_Holmstro , hi there! Is it what you expected to get?
I will explain later if it is in the right direction.
Dec 14, 2022 07:39 AM
Hi @Andrey_Kovalev yes that looks as it could do the trick?
Dec 14, 2022 09:15 AM
So, Autonumber field is used to increment the date.
Date formula is
DATEADD(TODAY(),Autonumber,"day")
Name formula is
DATETIME_FORMAT(Date, "dddd")
Week formula is
WEEKNUM(Date)
Odd Even formula is
MOD(Week,2)
Dec 14, 2022 10:19 AM
Hi @Andrey_Kovalev sorry but that didn't do the trick. Since there are 2 tables, one for odd weeks and one for even weeks they get the same date hence the auotnumber is the same 1-5. So I don't really know how to get forward
The formulas for the name, week and Odd even works fine.
Dec 14, 2022 10:22 AM
What is the reason of having two separate tables for odd and even weeks?
Dec 14, 2022 10:22 AM
I sort of need the autonumber to change every day so the dates are up to date?
Dec 14, 2022 10:24 AM
Its 2 different sides in the user interface made for clients.
Dec 14, 2022 11:29 AM
I made a mistake in Date formula. Instead of TODAY() a fixed date should be used, otherwise the date would shift every new day
DATEADD(DATETIME_PARSE("2022-12-14"),Autonumber - 1,"day")
Dec 14, 2022 11:31 AM
@Jesper_Holmstro wrote:Its 2 different sides in the user interface made for clients.
Do not get the idea. Creating two different views on the same table would not work?
Dec 14, 2022 01:26 PM
Ok thanks @Andrey_Kovalev I test with the new formula, the idea is that its different API reading from the tables, it may work with views, I got to test with the api and the system that reads it.
Dec 14, 2022 01:47 PM
It seems that the week formula shows the wrong week? there is no week 53 in 2022?
Dec 14, 2022 01:55 PM
Found it, you have to tell the formula to start on Mondays so the week formula should be
WEEKNUM(Date,"Monday")
Dec 14, 2022 04:06 PM
Hi @Andrey_Kovalev , The formula doesn't work like I want to, maybe I explained it wrong. The 2 weeks calendar should be "rolling", i.e today the 14th will after midnight local time change the date to Wednesday in 2 weeks time, the 28 th. Any ideas would be much appreciated?
Dec 15, 2022 12:00 AM
Are you going to keep older records or replace them with new ones? Do you mean the 14th to be replaced with the 28th OR do you mean that after the 14th next comes the 29th in your calendar?
Dec 15, 2022 12:12 AM
HI @Andrey_Kovalev , thank you for your time. There are just 10 records (2 weeks of workdays) , the 14th will be replaced with a new date, just a date change when passing midnight on the right day. As you see in the picture I now use the same table for both odd and even weeks. So the 14th should have changed date to 28th yesterday midnight because its the next upcoming even Wednesday.
Dec 16, 2022 12:32 AM
Dec 16, 2022 01:21 AM
I can't imagine how to achieve your goal without automation. It seems I can go through the cycle, but have no idea how to fix Monday as a first record.
Dec 16, 2022 01:43 AM
It seems I managed it working.
Calendar formula
IF(Today <= Date, Date, DATEADD(Date, 14, "day"))
Date formula
DATEADD(Today,Autonumber-WEEKDAY(Today),"day")
Today formula
Today()
Dec 16, 2022 01:49 AM
Hi @Andrey_Kovalev Yeah that might work, I will test it right away!