I am trying to create a control for a dashboard that allows selection of MTD. I am doing this by forcing a day of 1 and building the rest of the date, but I receive an error about adding string to a date. I have tried & and ||. Is there another way to do this?
ifelse(${Period}="Last_30",
addDateTime(-30,'DD',now()),
${Period}="Week",
addDateTime(-7,'DD',now()),
${Period}="Day",
addDateTime(-2,'DD',now())
${Period}="MTD",
'01/'+extract('MM',now())+"/"+extract('YYYY',now()),
${Period}="Last_Month",
'01/'+extract('MM',addDateTime(-1,'MM',now())+"/"+extract('YYYY',addDateTime(-1,'MM',now())),
now()
)
Use concat if you want to concatenate strings. Also you have to wrap extracted date expressions in toString function.
concat('01/',toString(extract('MM',now())),"/",toString(extract('YYYY',now())))
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I have a report that displays monthly and ytd amounts. I use start and enddate parameters that change according to the user. For example for startdate 4/1/2007 and enddate 2/28/2008
1. I need to display title as Monthly budget 2/1/2008 to 2/28/2008
2. I need to display title for YTD as YTD 4/1/2007 to 2/28/2008
I tried = Parameter!EndDate.value but it throws error
It looks like you may have missed a letter in your expression. It should be:
=Parameters!EndDate.Value
In the expression editor you can double click on the parameter name and it will insert it into the expression for you.
To get the full description that you mentioned, you'll need to use a combination of functions. One useful one to look at is DateAdd to add days and months to the specified date. Another one is FormatDateTime which allows you to use the standard "ShortDate" format.
If you run into further trouble, I would recommend posting a new question with the variations of code that you tried along with the specific error messages that you received.
You could try setting the Expression for a text box to:
="Monthly Budget " & FORMAT(Paramters!StartDate.Value, "MM/dd/yyyy") & " to " & "FORMAT(Paramters!EndDate.Value, "MM/dd/yyyy")
This will give you:
Monthly Budget 02/01/2008 to 02/28/2008
It is the same for your second requirement, just change the wording.
What's the most direct way get an interval from a string (varchar) value in postgres?
I have a column that contains JSON data. One of the JSON properties is a "runtime" value that is formatted like: "runtime":"03s.684". Using the JSON functions I'll able to get to just the runtime value with no problem, but then I've got the quoted string value.
I was looking for something similar to to_timestamp() so I could parse the string doing something like:
select to_interval('"03s.684"', '"SS\s.MS"'); --would like to do / this function doesn't exist
or something like this would be nice too:
select to_timestamp('"03s.684"', '"SS\s.MS"') :: interval; --also not valid
One approach I can see that should work is to translate the string into a format that can be cast to interval using regexp_replace() but that doesn't seem like the best approach. What's the recommended way of getting an interval from a custom-formatted time string?
You can use to_number()
SELECT to_number('3s.684', '999D9099') * '1 second'::interval;
I am using Google Script to export some calendar events to a spreadsheet; the relevant portion of my script is below:
var details=[[mycal,events[i].getTitle(), events[i].getDescription(), events[i].getLocation(), events[i].getStartTime(), myformula_placeholder, ('')]];
var range=sheet.getRange(row,1,1,7);
range.setValues(details);
This code works but the "time" that is put into the spreadsheet is a real number of the form nnnnn.nn. On the spreadsheet itself the date looks great using the integer to the left of the decimal (eg 10/15/2017) but the decimals are part of the value and therefore are part of the spreadsheet value.
My script drops the data into a sheet in my workbook, and another sheet reads the rows of data with the above date types, looking for specific date info from the other sheet using the match function (for today()). That would work fine if I could get rid of the decimals.
How can I use what I have above (if I stray far from what I have found works I will be redoing hours of work) but adding just what is needed to only put into the output spreadsheet the whole number portion so I have a pure date that will be found nicely by my match function using today()?
I have been digging, but errors abound in trying to put it all together. "Parse" looked like a good hope, but it failed as the validation did not like parse used within getStartTime. Maybe I used it in the wrong manner.
Help would be appreciated greatly.
According to the CalendarApp documentation, getStartTime() generates a Date object. You should be able to extract the date and time separately from the date object:
var eventStart = events[i].getStartTime(); // Returns date object
var startDate = eventStart.toDateString(); // Returns date portion as a string
var startTime = eventStart.toTimeString(); // Returns time portion as a string
You could then write one or both of these to your spreadsheet. See the w3schools Javascript Date Reference for more information:
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp
If you If you want to specify the string format, you can try formatDate in the Utilities service:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/utilities/utilities#formatdatedate-timezone-format
You could just use the Math.floor() function
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_floor.asp
which will round the real number to an integer. Your line would then read:
var details=[[mycal,events[i].getTitle(), events[i].getDescription(), events[i].getLocation(), Math.floor(events[i].getStartTime()), myformula_placeholder, ('')]];
I am trying to get a date from its integer components: I have day, month and year as variables (that can change, I don't want to hard code them), and I want to reunite them in a date variable.
For example, something like that;
myDay: 15
myMonth: 4
myYear: 2016
`date$(myYear,myMonth,myDay) --> should return 2016.4.15 (formatted as a date).
Any way to do that?
Thank you
q)d:3
q)m:8
q)y:2016
q)"D"$"." sv string (y;m;d)
2016.08.03
See cast vs tok - need to use different arguments depending on if what you're casting from is a string or not
I use a date picker that saves the date in a yyyy-mm-dd format in a database. It then automatically adds time that always appears as 00:00:00. So for example it displays the date like this : 2014-12-14 00:00:00. I want it to display just the date in a mm-dd-yyyy format.
I use the code below but something seems to be wrong with it because it simply doesn't change the way it is displayed. I want to split up each of the values, then display only the date in a different format.
var parts = value.split("/");
return parts[1] + "-" +parts[2] + "-" +parts[0];
What can I do to make it work? Javascript please.
Thanks in advance.
It's a wide variety of solutions. Depends on you server-side settings too, but I will assume, that you use common for most websites MySQL DB and PHP.
You can change you column type to DATE. As said in docs:
The DATE type is used for values with a date part but no time part.
MySQL retrieves and displays DATE values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format. The
supported range is '1000-01-01' to '9999-12-31'.
You can change your column type to VARCHAR and store a date in any format you like when INSERT it
You can convert it to proper format using MySQL built-in DATE_FORMAT()
SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2014-12-14 00:00:00', '%c-%e-%Y');
will give you 12-14-2014. Here is sqlfiddle,
just change first param to your column name in query
On server you can use PHP's date() function like this
$yourdate = '2014-12-14 00:00:00';
echo date("m-d-Y", strtotime($yourdate));
Closer to your question, how to do it in JS? It also has special object for this: Date(). Put your date in constructor, then use methods:
var yourdate = new Date('2014-12-14 00:00:00');
alert(yourdate.getMonth() + "-" + yourdate.getDate() + "-" + yourdate.getFullYear());
JSFiddle < - here
So, as far as almost every platform understands this datetime format - you can use any tool for converting it