Calculate the date 6 months old from today

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:29:58 GMT

Would you please stop recommending such code snippets!

Appian expressions is a functional language and local variables cannot be modified after initial assignment. Your code does not append anything to that local!b.

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:27:50 GMT

Try this

year(today()) - enumerate(3)

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

anups4671 — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:23:10 GMT

Hi pd5143, Kindly try this solution

a!localVariables(
local!a:year(today()),
local!b,
a!flatten(
a!forEach(
items: enumerate(3),
expression: append(local!b,local!a-(fv!index-1))
)),
)

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

pd5143 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:14:27 GMT

how to get past 3 year from now?

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

Madhu Sudhan Reddy Bapatu — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:11:11 GMT

Thanks

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

Madhu Sudhan Reddy Bapatu — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:10:24 GMT

edate(today(), -6)

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:48:12 GMT

It can be simplified even more by using the built in function edate()

docs.appian.com/.../fnc_date_and_time_edate.html

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

hrishikeshd997 — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 06:43:44 GMT

This can be simplified as follows -

if(
  and(eomonth(ri!inputDate, 0) = ri!inputDate, month(ri!inputDate) <> 2),
  eomonth(ri!inputDate, -ri!numOfmonthsBack),
  eomonth(ri!inputDate, - (ri!numOfmonthsBack+1)) + day(ri!inputDate)
)

FYI this website is useful for validation

https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

Madhu Sudhan Reddy Bapatu — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 05:01:21 GMT

todate(concat(month(ri!date1)-6,"/",day(ri!date1),"/",year(ri!date1)))

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

omere0001 — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 18:26:33 GMT

Here is a code snippet that will return 6 months from the previous day. It also takes into account years, so 6 months ago from January will return July of the previous year. I also added error handling for if the day of the month is greater than the number of days in the previous month (i.e no February 31st). In that scenario it will just return the last day of the month.

date(
year(eomonth(today(), -6)),
month(eomonth(today(), -6)),
day(
if(
day(today()) > daysinmonth(month(eomonth(today(), -6)), year(eomonth(today(), -6))),
eomonth(today(), -6),
today()
)
)
)

Just replace all of the -6 with however many months back you want.

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

Chanakya Volam — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:16:23 GMT

Hi Miguel Garcia-Gonzalez

eomonth() function only returns the last day of the month but not the exact date minus number of months

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

Miguel Garcia-Gonzalez — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 14:22:07 GMT

You can use a date function provided by Appian called eomonth(), I think it does what you are asking for.

Please refer to: docs.appian.com/.../fnc_date_and_time_eomonth.html

RE: Calculate the date 6 months old from today

malavikak0001 — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 14:19:01 GMT

I think I found the answer, plugin called Date and Time Functions has some called subtractmonths(now(), 6)