I'm working on a script to create a table of contents. The format for each item of this toc is: weekday, month day. Example: Sunday, September 1. I have a date in the format of "09/01/2018". Can I use this date to get the weekday? When I try the following I get the error "BBEdit got an error: Can’t get weekday of date "09/01/2018"."
set theDate to theMonth & "/" & theDay & "/" & theYear --> "09/01/2018"
set theWeekday to (weekday of date theDate)
I'v also tried setting theDate "as date" to which it says "Can’t make "09/01/2018" into type date." And I've also tried adding "tell application "{BBEdit, Finder, System Events}" to set theDate..." and each one gave the same same error as above.
The only info I can seem to find when googling is how to get currentDate or some other date based on whatever "today" is. Nothing for just a random date, which is what I need.
I'm sure I'm just missing something pretty simple here, but I'm pretty new to AppleScript so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in Advance!
The most reliable (and locale independent) way is to create the date with current date and set the properties
set theMonth to 8
set theDay to 14
set theYear to 2018
set currentDate to current date
-- the first `day` avoids an overflow error
tell currentDate to set {day, year, its month, day} to {1, theYear, theMonth, theDay}
set theWeekday to weekday of currentDate
or with a litte help from Cocoa
use framework "Foundation"
set dateComponents to current application's NSDateComponents's alloc()'s init()
dateComponents's setYear:theYear
dateComponents's setMonth:theMonth
dateComponents's setDay:theDay
set theDate to (current application's NSCalendar's currentCalendar()'s dateFromComponents:dateComponents) as date
set theWeekday to weekday of theDate
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I get data from a folder where my file name has format Watches_20220315_095127 its in date and time format. But Power BI is unable to detect when the time starts with "0" i.e 095127 it displays error. Can you please help me. I need that time from file name to be used in powerbi report. Power BI works fine when my time has the following format.
Watches_20220315_105127
Watches_20220307_184253
Watches_20220301_144421
PowerBI not detecting as time for below format
Watches_20220315_095127
Assuming that you have the file name as a column in Power Query (PQ), you need to convert that text into a format that PQ can turn into a Date. You can do something like this by getting the sections of the string using Text.Range (Where [Column1] is the name of your column).
DateTime.FromText(
Text.Range([Column1], 8, 4) & "-"
& Text.Range([Column1], 12, 2) & "-"
& Text.Range([Column1], 14, 2) & " "
& Text.Range([Column1], 17,2) & ":"
& Text.Range([Column1], 19,2) & ":"
& Text.Range([Column1], 21,2)
)
This will split out the text into a YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format that can use DateTime.FromText to convert it into a date time.
You will have to set the field to be a date time type for PQ and then DAX to pick it up as a date time. In the below example the 4th row that has a time of 09:30:01 will now be converted to a correct date time.
I want to only change year in the date irrespective of date format. For example if date=05/20/2019 0r 05-20-2019 then it should change to 05/20/2017
Just use DateSerial() to replace the Year component.
Call SetLocale("en-us")
Dim oldDate: oldDate = CDate("05/20/2019")
Dim newDate: newDate = DateSerial(2015, Month(oldDate), Day(oldDate)
I have been working on getting a report out for long without success.
I have a report that select based on parameter fields of date and boolean. Currently I have to create 3 reports. One based on dates, one based on the boolean and one based on both.
However, I want my report to be able to select all dates if the user does not input date in the parameter or select all booleans if user does not select one.
Currently I used this
if ({?Start Date} = DateTimeValue('') or {?End Date} =DateTimeValue('')) then
{rectReport.Call date} in DateTimeValue ('1753-01-01 00:00:00') to CurrentDateTime
else
({rectReport.Call date} in {?Start Date} to {?End Date}) and {rectReport.EngineDown} = {?Engine Down}
The basic Idea I am looking for is that the user can decide to select only one parameter instead of the two.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bimbo
In Crystal 2008 you have the option of making parameters optional. What you could do is create one report with both parameters and then set both parameters as optional. In your record selection formula you could do something like this:
(if (HasValue({?Startdate}) and HasValue({?Enddate}))
then {table.datefield} in {?Startdate} to {?Enddate}
else {table.datefield} in {defaultstartdate} to {defaultenddate})
and (if HasValue({?BoolParam}) then {table.boolfield} = {?BoolParam}
else {table.boolfield} = {defaultbool})
If you wanted to select ALL tables if the user did not input the parameter, you could just omit the else-statements.
(note: Sorry if that syntax isn't correct (I am just getting back into CR again), but you get the idea.)
EDIT: Since optional parameters aren't available in CR10, couldn't you just use parameter default values for the dates instead? For the boolean, you could just make a parameter with 3 values: true, false, and "all" and then default to the "all" value when running the report.
I don't know your particular situation, but the way we handle this (specifically for Defined Periods vs User-specified-Date-Range) is through being able to set defaults.
Our main environment is BOE XI.
Our parameters might be
ReportPeriod (String Variable)
and
CustomDates (DateTime Range, but will work as two discrete dates)
Example params for ReportPeriod might be
1 Day
7 Days
Last Month
Custom Dates
Formulas are used to calculate date limits that will be used in the record selection. I start with the END DATE, as it is convenient for our period reports.
#EndDate
Select ?ReportPeriod
Case
"1 Day", "7 Days" : CurrentDate
// Conveniently defaults to MIDNIGHT
"Last Month" : Maximum(LastFullMonth)
"CustomDates" : Maximum(?CustomDates)
// Or discrete parameter for end date
default : CurrentDate
#BeginDate
Select ?ReportPeriod
Case
"1 Day" : DateAdd("d", -1, #EndDate)
"7 Days" : DateAdd("d", -7, #EndDate)
"Last Month" : Minimum(LastFullMonth)
"CustomDates" : Minimum(?CustomDates)
// Or discrete parameter for end date
default : DateAdd("d", -1, #EndDate)
And, let me caution against using CurentDateTime unless necessary. Every time you try to step through the report, the selection will have changed: 5:01:10 PM ... 5:01:16 PM ... 5:01:24 PM ...
When publishing a report, we set default date (it doesn't matter what, it's only used for CUSTOM and the customer resets it then), and a default ReportPeriod.
The report can be scheduled periodically (based on ReportPeriod) and it will always run.
If the user wants to do custom dates (historic reporting, etc.), then they can chose that for report period, and then set whatever start and end dates they need.
Helpful?
in a datepicker i use DateValue(Now) to get the current date . it gives date-month-year
but i require to store only the month value from the same datepicker. wht shoud i do ?
The month can be extracted from the date using the Format$ function:
Print "Month is ";Format$(yourDateValue,"mm")
See this page for all the possibilities.
To get the month as a string use Format as Richard suggests
MsgBox "Month name is " & Format$(yourDateValue, "mmm")
To get the month number use DatePart
MsgBox "Month number is " & DatePart("m", yourDateValue)
Using VB 6
Using two DTPicker in my project, I want to select monthly and yearly like MM/yyyy and yyyy
Now am Using Daily Date’s like 23/02/2009 (dd/MM/yyyy), I want to use like Monthly (MM/yyyy) and Yearly (yyyy)
My Code
Public Function DaysInMonth(dte As Date) As Integer
Dim d As Date
d = DateAdd("m", 1, dte)
d = DateAdd("d", -1, d)
DaysInMonth = Day(d)
End Function
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim dteFrom As Date
Dim dteTo As Date
dteFrom = Format(CDate(Year(Date) & "-" & Month(Date) & "-" & "01"), "yyyy-mm-dd")
dteTo = Format(CDate(Year(Date) & "-" & Month(Date) & "-" & DaysInMonth(dteFrom)), "yyyy-mm-dd")
dtpFrom.Value = dteFrom
dtpTo.Value = dteTo
End Sub
Above code is working for daily dates. I want to use monthly and yearly dates also
Now I am selecting a date it showing complete value of the date like 03-02-2009, I want to show monthly and Yearly data’s
Expected Output.
Monthly Date
03/2009 to 04/2009 – It should take a value of 01/03/2009 to 30/04/2009
05/2009 to 05/2009 – It should take a value of 01/05/2009 to 31/05/2009
Yearly Date
2008 to 2008 – It should take a value of 01/01/2008 to 31/12/2008
2008 to 2009 – It should take a value of 01/01/2008 to 31/12/2009
How to select monthly and yearly?
Need VB 6 code Help
You can set the Format on the DTPicker to 3 (dtpCustom) and the CustomFormat to MM/yyyy . This will display month/year format in the text section, but you will still get the full calendar on drop down.
If you want to disable the calendar, you can set UpDown to True. Then you will get up/down buttons instead of the dropdown.
You need to make sure that the hidden value (day part) is correct.
EDIT:
OK, from your comment I understand that you are happy with the date picker, but you want to display the result in a special format?
Example:
Date selected is 20/8/2009 and stored in a date variable a.
Display as 2009:
MsgBox Format(a, "yyyy")
Display as 08/2009:
MsgBox Format(a, "mm/yyyy")
Display as August, 2009:
MsgBox Format(a, "mmmm, yyyy")
Display as Aug, 2009:
MsgBox Format(a, "mmm, yyyy")
Is this what you want?