Dynamic date formula

[Jesper_Holmstro]

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?

[Jesper_Holmstro]

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.

[Jesper_Holmstro]

It seems that the week formula shows the wrong week? there is no week 53 in 2022?

[Jesper_Holmstro]

Found it, you have to tell the formula to start on Mondays so the week formula should be

WEEKNUM(Date,"Monday")

[Jesper_Holmstro]

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?

[Andrey_Kovalev]

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?

[Jesper_Holmstro]

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.

[Jesper_Holmstro]

@kuovonne do you have a genius idea up your sleeve?

Best regards

Jesper

[Andrey_Kovalev]

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.

[Andrey_Kovalev · Accepted solution]

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()

[Jesper_Holmstro]

Hi @Andrey_Kovalev Yeah that might work, I will test it right away!