Is it possible to have the date field show a day of the week instead of a date?
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Changing Date Field to Show Day of Week
+7Best answer by Jeremy_Oglesby
Tobin_Perry wrote:
That’s very helpful! Now is it possible when those items are grouped to order them in the correct order? Right now it orders them alphabetically … Friday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday. Alphabetical seems like the only option.
Well, it’s a little uglier to look at, but adjust the formula to this:
WEEKDAY({Date Field}) & " - " &
DATETIME_FORMAT({Date Field}, 'dddd')
That will prefix the day as text with the number of that day in the week:
That will sort the days in their appropriate week order when sorting by that field.
It’s not possible to have a Date field do that, but it’s possible to have a Formula field process a date in a Date field and output the day of the week for that date.
DATETIME_FORMAT({Date Field}, 'dddd')
Optionally, you can have it abbreviated by using a different format specifier:
Supported format specifiers for DATETIME_FORMAT
The DATETIME_FORMAT function will allow you to reformat the data from the date-type field into a string of your specifications. This is written in the form "DATETIME_FORMAT(Datetime, 'format s...
+7That’s very helpful! Now is it possible when those items are grouped to order them in the correct order? Right now it orders them alphabetically … Friday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday. Alphabetical seems like the only option.
Tobin_Perry wrote:
That’s very helpful! Now is it possible when those items are grouped to order them in the correct order? Right now it orders them alphabetically … Friday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday. Alphabetical seems like the only option.
Well, it’s a little uglier to look at, but adjust the formula to this:
WEEKDAY({Date Field}) & " - " &
DATETIME_FORMAT({Date Field}, 'dddd')
That will prefix the day as text with the number of that day in the week:
That will sort the days in their appropriate week order when sorting by that field.
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