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Date Function

Postby WStansbury » Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:34 pm

I have a table with a STATUS field and a STATUS_DATE field. In my Conditions, I want to select all records where STATUS = APPFILED and STATUS_DATE is > 90 days old.

I think I should use the @now() function but I do not know the correct syntax for using it.

Can you help?
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Re: Date Function

Postby admin » Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:27 pm

If you just want a "permanent" condition, use the conditions tab:
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-here you can enter the >now()-90 as a condition on a date field

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Re: Date Function

Postby WStansbury » Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:05 am

I tried your equation and got the following error screen
>now()-90

Dynamic AI can't open the list APPFILED Cases > 90 days:

While connecting to the SQL Server database (CLAIMS), a problem arose.

The issue reported from the database is:

now is not a recognized built-in function name
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Re: Date Function

Postby admin » Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:45 am

For sql server you can use getdate()

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Re: Date Function

Postby WStansbury » Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:48 pm

While we are on the subject of dates ---

I want to get the elapsed time from the STATUS_DATE to today's date

I think I would need to create another column called TODAYDATE, @date(), and then create a formula of something like ddiff(d,TODAYDATE - STATUS_DATE)

Tried in a couple of areas and kept on getting SQL errors
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Re: Date Function

Postby admin » Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:20 pm

You can do something like

cast(getdate()-status_date as integer)

- this will return a whole number of days between the two dates.
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Re: Date Function

Postby WStansbury » Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:03 pm

Thank You Mr. Andersen for your accurate and quick responses!!
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