I'm trying to create a bi-weekly appointment using vbscript. But for some reason the output date is always occurring on every other Thursday when it should be every other Friday. I have outlook set up to start the week on a Sunday. I have changed and removed.DayOfWeekMask and it stays on Thursdays.
Dim endDate
Dim startDate
endDate = #01/01/2022#
startDate = #01/01/2012#
Const olRecursBiWeekly = 1
Const olFriday = 6
Set olkEvent = olkApp.CreateItem(1)
olkEvent.Subject = "Pay Day"
olkEvent.AllDayEvent = True
olkEvent.ReminderSet = False
Set objRecurrence = olkEvent.GetRecurrencePattern
objRecurrence.DayOfWeekMask = olFriday
objRecurrence.RecurrenceType = olRecursBiWeekly
objRecurrence.PatternStartDate = startDate
objRecurrence.Interval = 2
objRecurrence.PatternEndDate = endDate
olkEvent.Save
Thanks for your help.
There no such thing is olRecursBiWeekly. You need olRecursWeekly (=1).
olFriday is &H20 (32 decimal).
You need to move things around:
The DayOfWeekMask should be set after the RecurrenceType property has
been set and before the PatternEndDate and PatternStartDate properties
are set.
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I am trying to create a simple script that prompts the user for their birthday, formatted as 10.02.20, then takes that string and turns it into text, such as October 2nd 2020. I have the following code:
Dim bd, message, title ' define variables
title = "What is your birthday?" ' set variable
message = "Format like so: 12.15.07; 3.03.05" ' set variable
bd = InputBox(message, title) ' prompt user
Dim year
year = bd.Substring(6, 2)
Dim month
month = bd.Substring(0, 2)
Dim day
day = bd.Substring(3, 2)
msgbox bd ' for testing
call msgbox(year + month + day) 'also testing
And I am getting an error after the prompt, ...\Desktop\test.vbs(8, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Object required: '12.23.03' and I am not sure what it means, Object Required.
Any fixes or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
You cannot use Substring in VBScript. You can use Mid instead:
Dim year
year = Mid(bd, 7, 2)
The first character in a string is at position 1, not 0, so I adjusted your parameter from 6 to 7.
Also, to concatenate strings, although + works, you can also use &:
call msgbox(year & month & day)
You can use this function in vbscript : FormatDateTime(date,format)
Parameter Description
date Required.
Any valid date expression (like Date() or Now())
format Optional.
A value that specifies the date/time format to use can take the following values:
0 = vbGeneralDate - Default. Returns date: mm/dd/yyyy and time if specified: hh:mm:ss PM/AM.
1 = vbLongDate - Returns date: weekday, monthname, year
2 = vbShortDate - Returns date: mm/dd/yyyy
3 = vbLongTime - Returns time: hh:mm:ss PM/AM
4 = vbShortTime - Return time: hh:mm
Dim Title,Input
Title = "format date"
Input = InputBox("Enter your date of Birthday !",Title,"10.02.20")
Input = FormatDateTime(Replace(Input,".","/"),1)
MsgBox Input
My code below is used to decrements date based on the first date entered, and if column B is filled. As the data imported to Excel is very large, so this calculation is now causing my excel to lag. Is there a way to speed it up??
For i = 1 To rowNow - 3
newDate = DateAdd("d", -i, oldDate)
For Each Cell In Range("A:A").Cells
If IsEmpty(Cell) = True And IsEmpty(Range("B:B")) = False Then Cell.Value = newDate: Exit For
Next
Next
Maybe this,depending on what's in column B:
For i = 1 To rowNow - 3
newDate = DateAdd("d", -i, oldDate)
With Range("A:A")
On Error Resume Next
Intersect(.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks), .Offset(, 1).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants).Offset(, -1))(1).Value = newDate
End With
Next i
I have a set of macros to hide and unhide columns based on the contents of a specific row. They were all written in Excel 2013 for Windows (running in parallels on my MBA, if that's relevant) and work fine there. But when I open the worksheet in Excel 2011 for Mac, the macros give odd results. The "unhide all columns" macro works fine; the other functions get as far as hiding all columns but not as far as unhiding the ones I want to see.
I can only assume Excel for Mac is having a problem with what's in the FOR EACH loop, but I can't figure out what! I'd appreciate any guidance: I need to get this system working on both Windows and Mac.
Code below.
This function works:
Sub GANTT_Filter_Show_All()
Dim rngDates As Range
Set rngDates = Range("GANTT_Dates")
rngDates.EntireColumn.Hidden = False
End Sub
But this one only hides all the columns:
Sub GANTT_Filter_This_Quarter()
Dim intCurrentMonth As Integer, intCurrentYear As Integer, rngDates As Range, cell As Range
Dim intCurrentQuarterMonths(3) As Integer
Set rngDates = Range("GANTT_Dates")
intCurrentMonth = DatePart("m", Date)
intCurrentYear = DatePart("yyyy", Date)
'loading months of current quarter into an array intCurrentMonth
Select Case intCurrentMonth
Case 1 To 3
intCurrentQuarterMonths(0) = 1
intCurrentQuarterMonths(1) = 2
intCurrentQuarterMonths(2) = 3
Case 4 To 6
intCurrentQuarterMonths(0) = 4
intCurrentQuarterMonths(1) = 5
intCurrentQuarterMonths(2) = 6
Case 7 To 9
intCurrentQuarterMonths(0) = 7
intCurrentQuarterMonths(1) = 8
intCurrentQuarterMonths(2) = 9
Case 10 To 12
intCurrentQuarterMonths(0) = 10
intCurrentQuarterMonths(1) = 11
intCurrentQuarterMonths(2) = 12
End Select
'hiding all columns
rngDates.EntireColumn.Hidden = True
'comparing each column to array of months in current quarter and hiding if false
For Each cell In rngDates
For Each v In intCurrentQuarterMonths
If v = DatePart("m", cell.Value) And DatePart("yyyy", cell.Value) = intCurrentYear Then cell.EntireColumn.Hidden = False
Next v
Next cell
Application.Goto Reference:=Range("a1"), Scroll:=True
End Sub
I'm with #Steven on this one, nothing obviously wrong with the code. I'm not a Mac user, but it's entirely possible that there's some weirdness around the date functions, particularly those that require formatting to resolve.
I would try replacing the calls to DatePart() with calls to Month() and Year() in situations like this - even for non-Mac users. It doesn't rely on parsing the strings for formatting, so it's much more efficient (and easy to read):
Sub Benchmarks()
Dim starting As Double, test As Date, i As Long
test = Now
starting = Timer
For i = 1 To 1000000
Year test
Next i
Debug.Print "Elapsed: " & (Timer - starting)
starting = Timer
For i = 1 To 1000000
DatePart "yyyy", test
Next i
Debug.Print "Elapsed: " & (Timer - starting)
End Sub
Since you likely can't run the benchmark...
Elapsed for Year(): 0.109375
Elapsed for DatePart(): 0.515625
Also note that in addition to this, the dates in the column you're searching are coming through as Variants, it may help to explicitly cast them to dates:
If v = Month(CDate(cell.Value)) And intCurrentYear = Year(CDate(cell.Value)) Then
cell.EntireColumn.Hidden = False
End If
Scenario: Trying to find out the End Week Number(current year's week number) and Start Week Number using a given period. Suppose PeriodWeeks = 10. That means from today's week number to last 10 weeks which surely will go to last year in current situation.
Code I have:
perdiodWeeks = 10 ' this is a constant in the code
periodMonths= periodQtrs * 3 ' this calculates month from given number of quarters
endDate = DateAdd("m",-1,Date)
endYear = DatePart("yyyy", endDate)
endMonth = DatePart("m", endDate)
startDate = DateAdd("m", -(periodMonths-1), endDate)
startYear = DatePart("yyyy", startDate)
startMonth = DatePart("m", startDate)
How can I calculate the following?
startYW ' start year week number
endYW ' end year week number
where value would be endYW = 201506 and startYW = perdiodWeeks from endYW. 06 is the current Week Number of 2015
Calculate the initial date (substract #weeks*7) and use the available functions to retrieve the required information
Option Explicit
Dim periodWeeks
periodWeeks = 10
Dim dateToday, dateStart
dateToday = Now()
dateStart = DateAdd("d",periodWeeks*-7, dateToday)
Dim weekToday, weekStart
weekToday = DatePart("ww",dateToday)
weekStart = DatePart("ww",dateStart)
I'm very new (1 week) to visual basic and basically I'm trying to automate some repetitive work, now to the point , within a number of files produced with varying data I need to format the selected range as a table (medium 9) but i'm in a block at the moment and need some help and would really appreciate it, here is what i have so far>>>>
Option Explicit
Dim strDate, strRepDate, strPath, strPathRaw , strDate2
dim dteTemp, dteDay, dteMth, dteYear, newDate, myDate
myDate = Date()
dteTemp = DateAdd("D", -1, myDate)
dteDay = DatePart("D", dteTemp)
dteMth = DatePart("M", dteTemp)
dteYear = DatePart("YYYY", dteTemp)
If (Len(dteDay) = 1) Then dteDay = "0" & dteDay
If (Len(dteMth) = 1) Then dteMth = "0" & dteMth
strDate = dteYear&"-"&dteMth&"-"&dteDay
strDate2 = dteYear&""&dteMth&""&dteDay
Dim objXLApp, objXLWb, objXLWs
Set objXLApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set objXLWb = objXLApp.Workbooks.Open("C:\Users\CuRrY\Desktop\"&strDate2&"\Agent Daily Disposition "&strDate2&".xls")
objXLApp.Application.Visible = True
'start excell
Set objXLWs = objXLWb.Sheets(1)
'objXLWs.Cells(Row, Column ).Value
With objXLWs
objXLWs.Cells(3, 1).Value = "Agent Name"
'objXLWs.Range("A3").Select
objXLWs.Range("A3").CurrentRegion.Select
'End With
as you can see i reached as far as CurrentRegion.Select but how to format selected cells into (medium 9) i've tried so much and failed
Thanks for any help
You can configure the CurrentRegion(which represents a Range object) through the SpecialCells Submethod. Although your conditions are specific to your xls sheet, you will still have to follow the formatting available through the specialcells() method properties. Also, by utilizing the currentregion property, the page assumes you have a xls header. So it is important to verify your table structure before trying to incorporate this property.
For instance:
Sub FillIn()
Range("A1").CurrentRegion.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).FormulaR1C1 _
= "=R[-1]C"
Range("A1").CurrentRegion.Value = Range("A1").CurrentRegion.Value
End Sub
View the available properties that can be applied to CurrentRegion -> Here
And the MSDN Article -> Here