Date Function
Solution No. 23
This action allows you to find a specific date based off your starting date.
So Where Would We Use It?
Useful when trying to extract certain parts of a date such as the month, date or only the year to be used with action results or subsequent actions.
Properties
To set the properties for this action, follow the steps below:
1. Select Date Function from the Action dropdown list.
2. Select the date value from the dropdown list.
The choices are:
- Type In – sets the condition to a value that the user types in manually.
- Action Result – sets the condition to a user-defined action result.
- Value From Screen – sets the condition to a value pulled from a specific field within the specified screen.
3. If you selected Type In for Step 2, enter the predefined value and proceed to Step 4; otherwise, specify a Value in the dropdown list below.
4. Select the function from the dropdown list.
The choices are:
- Get Day of week.
- Get Day of Month.
- Get Month of Year (Text).
- Get Month of Year (Number).
- Get First Day of Month.
- Get Last Day of Month.
- Get First Day of Year.
- Get Last Day of Year.
- Get [Choice of: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun] After.
- Get [Choice of: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun] Before.
- Get [Choice of: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun] On or After.
- Get [Choice of: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun] On or Before.
- Convert To UTC Date Time.
- Format Date.
5. Enter an Action Result name.
6. Enter Internal note (Optional).
7. Click Save & Close to save changes and close the action properties window; otherwise, click Cancel to close the window without saving.
| Created by | John C. on | Nov-19-2012 |
| Last modified by | John C. on | Nov-19-2012 |
