I need to have a user enter a start Year for a report that will show 10 years of stats beginning from that start year.
I have a parameter where the user inserts the year (ie 2000) as the start year, but the parameter is just recognized as a number not as part of a date or year. Which I thought was fine (I have everything I want working in the report for the first year. Now that I want to go an add a section that takes the parameter and adds one, I'm having trouble.
DateAdd seems to just work with dates and this parameter is passed as a number. I must really be missing something. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Try:
Year({table.dateField}) IN {?YearPrompt} TO ({?YearPrompt}+1)
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I explored all the functions available in the transformer, but I couldn't find the exact function to get the last day of the previous month in standard format, i.e. dd/mm/yyyy. Please help me in this regard.
The field that needs to appear is in the COL_C field.
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inside it I can't put anything that returns me this result
You can use DateOffsetByComponents to substract the current day.
Cut out the day part from your date and substract it with above function.
i.e. 16/12/2022 - 16 = 30/11/2022
I have a crystal report I run weekly and manually update the dates to pull the last 7 days (not including today). I've tried to use 'in last7days' and/or {date} >= minimum(lastfullweek) + 1
and {date} <= maximum(lastfullweek) + 1. I can't get this query to run - I get an error saying a string is required here. My date format is yyyy-mm-dd. I need to update this report to run automatically - I don't want to run the report by manually updating the date range every week. Thanks in advance for your help!
You are probably comparing a string to a date. Check the data types of the elements in your expression. Most likely your {date} column is a string rather than a date.
See if you can convert it to a date (e.g. the cDate() function).
Try R-Tag Community Edition. It is free and has the option to set the dates and other values outside the report so you don't have to hardcode them inside the report.
I'm pretty new in Tableau. I have looked at the forum already and the answered suggested. But I'm not quite sure it match my question.
I have a bunch of records. This is about registration for a sport lesson depending on time. All of them have a start date and and some of them a finish date. The other never finish (They continue until date T with T = now).
My goal is to compare only the first 6 months of all my records, I think there are 50 of them, like the evolution during this period of time. So, for some the start date would be in January 2009, for some other, it would be in May 2016, etc.
As field provided, I have the start date and the number of person that have subscribed those lesson through time.
So, do you if there is any to achieve this goal? Is there enough detail for you to understand what I am saying ?
Thx to you guys !!
EDIT
You can find enclosed a screenshot of the result that I already have.
number of registration for all lesson through time
I'm not sure to be clear, what I try to do is to compare the first 6 months only of each courses. So the evolution of the first 6 months of this course compare to the evolution of the first 6 months of this other course and so on :)
If I understand your question correctly you are wanting to show only the first six months of your data but you want this by each category.
I am assumuming that by definition this means 6 months from the first record in your data for each category.
In order to achieve this I would create a true/false flag using a level of detail expression. As you are new to tableau I would suggest you do some reading on this but basically you can force a calculation to be at a certain level of the data rather than at the row level. You use this to find the minimum date in the table and then use a date diff to return true if the actual date field is within 6 months of this.
Create a calculated field as follows:
[date] <= DATEADD('month', 6, { FIXED [category] :min([date])})
Then drag this onto your filters pane and select "TRUE". This should give you only the first six months of records for each category.
Let me know if you need anything else.
I'm attempting to make the parameters for a Crystal Report more user-friendly for a client, who has requested that they be able to have the default values for a Start and End date parameter be the first and last day of the previous month.
I know how to use either a formula in CR or a stored procedure to produce these values, but I want to know if a variable can be used in the 'Default Value' setting for a parameter, or if it only allows for static entries. Does anyone know? Right now the user can set the date parameters to null and the stored procedure generates the data for the previous month on its own, but I thought it'd be nice if the date parameters actually displayed the dates that were being used as defaults. Thanks in advance!
You can do it, Try below process:
Create a parameter ?date with String datatype and take static and write two default strings as below:
First day of previous month
Last day of Previous month
Now go to record selection formula and write below code:
if ({?date}="First day of previous month") then
table.date=DateSerial(year(currentdate),Month(Currentdate)-1,1)
else if ({?date}="Last day of previous month")
then
table.date=Cdate(DateAdd("d",-1,DateSerial(year(currentdate),Month(Currentdate),1)))
I want to calculate the number of days passed between past date and a current date. My past date is in the format dd/mm/yyyy format. I have used below mentioned formulas but giving the proper output.
=DAYS360(A2,TODAY())
=MINUS(D2,TODAY())
In the above formula A2 = 4/12/2012 (dd/mm/yyyy) and I am not sure whether TODAY returns in dd/mm/yyyy format or not. I have tried using 123 button on the tool bar, but no luck.
The following seemed to work well for me:
=DATEDIF(B2, Today(), "D")
DAYS360 does not calculate what you want, i.e. the number of days passed between the two dates – see the end of this post for details.
MINUS() should work fine, just not how you tried but the other way round:
=MINUS(TODAY(),D2)
You may also use simple subtraction (-):
=TODAY()-D2
I made an updated copy of #DrCord’s sample spreadsheet to illustrate this.
Are you SURE you want DAYS360? That is a specialized function used in the
financial sector to simplify calculations for bonds. It assumes a 360 day
year, with 12 months of 30 days each. If you really want actual days, you'll
lose 6 days each year.
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Since this is the top Google answer for this, and it was way easier than I expected, here is the simple answer. Just subtract date1 from date2.
If this is your spreadsheet dates
A B
1 10/11/2017 12/1/2017
=(B1)-(A1)
results in 51, which is the number of days between a past date and a current date in Google spreadsheet
As long as it is a date format Google Sheets recognizes, you can directly subtract them and it will be correct.
To do it for a current date, just use the =TODAY() function.
=TODAY()-A1
While today works great, you can't use a date directly in the formula, you should referencing a cell that contains a date.
=(12/1/2017)-(10/1/2017) results in 0.0009915716411, not 61.
I used your idea, and found the difference and then just divided by 365 days. Worked a treat.
=MINUS(F2,TODAY())/365
Then I shifted my cell properties to not display decimals.
If you are using the two formulas at the same time, it will not work...
Here is a simple spreadsheet with it working:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiOy0YDBXjt4dDJSQWg1Qlp6TEw5SzNqZENGOWgwbGc
If you are still getting problems I would need to know what type of erroneous result you are getting.
Today() returns a numeric integer value: Returns the current computer system date. The value is updated when your document recalculates. TODAY is a function without arguments.
The following worked for me. Kindly note that TODAY() must NOT be the first argument in the function otherwise it will not work.
=DATEDIF( W2, TODAY(), "d")
Today() does return value in DATE format.
Select your "Days left field" and paste this formula in the field
=DAYS360(today(),C2)
Go to Format > Number > More formats >Custom number format and select the number with no decimal numbers.
I tested, it works, at least in new version of Sheets, March 2015.