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Feb 23, 2020 07:09 AM
Hi airtablers
I’m trying to create a business schedule table.
There are ‘start time’ and ‘duration’(a lookup value from a different base) fields, and I try to formulate the ‘end time’ field by aggregating the first 2.
For some reason the below formula gives the start time unchanged.
DATEADD({Start time},Duration,'seconds')
I tried to change the seconds to minutes and hours with same result. {Duration} also didn’t change.
The formatting option “Use the same time zone (GMT) for all collaborators”, is disabled in both date fields.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
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Feb 23, 2020 02:41 PM
I was able to see the same problem as you. I suspect the problem has to do with the lookup.
My workaround was to force the {duration} into a number by adding zero to it.
DATEADD({Start time}, {Duration} + 0, 'second')
In my test, only {Duration} is a lookup; {Start time} is a regular date/time field.

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Feb 23, 2020 02:41 PM
I was able to see the same problem as you. I suspect the problem has to do with the lookup.
My workaround was to force the {duration} into a number by adding zero to it.
DATEADD({Start time}, {Duration} + 0, 'second')
In my test, only {Duration} is a lookup; {Start time} is a regular date/time field.

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Feb 23, 2020 06:12 PM
Thank you so much :slightly_smiling_face:
