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Tom Evans
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Does anyone know if a DATEADD can be used in a -SET command. I've tried

-SET &Print_Date_YYMD = &YYMD;
-SET &tdate=DATEADD(&Print_Date_YYMD, 'D', 30)

with no success

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MartinY
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Work fine. FYI add semicolon at the end

-SET &Print_Date_YYMD = &YYMD;
-SET &tdate=DATEADD(&Print_Date_YYMD, 'D', 30);

-TYPE &Print_Date_YYMD, &tdate


Are you really under 7.6.2 ?


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BabakNYC
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Per documentation: DATEADD requires a date to be in date format. Since Dialogue Manager interprets a date as alphanumeric or numeric, and DATEADD requires a standard date stored as an offset from the base date, do not use DATEADD with Dialogue Manager unless you first convert the variable used as the input date to an offset from the base date.


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MartinY
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You can also use AYMD

-SET &tdate=AYMD(&YYMD, 30, 'YYMD');
-TYPE &tdate


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awardb
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-SET &TDATE=DATECVT(DATEADD(DATECVT(&Print_Date_YYMD,'I8YYMD','YYMD'),'D',30),'YYMD','I8YYMD')

DATEADD works on dates that are in smart date format; however, dialogue manager variables are always alphanumeric format. Therefore, you have to convert your dialogue manager date to a smart date before you perform the DATEADD function, then convert it back to an alphanumeric format after the DATEADD function. Because of this you have to use nested functions as above.

Hope this helps.

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jgelona
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You can create a DEFINE FUNCTIONs that does the same thing in Dialogue Manager as the DATE functions DATEADD, DATEMOV and DATEDIFF to Reporting. Do a search on UDATEADD.

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