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I need to subtract 5 years from current date in Webfocus to use as a variable

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sdavis,
first you need to know if the date you're working on is via Dialog Manager, or actually a datefield in your data file.
You want to make sure your date is a SMART date; that's a specific FOCUS date type. (Its the serial value, the same way dates are handled in excel for instance), and the methods for doing that are different between the two places.
Take a look at your manual, WebFocus Using Functions, chapter 7 . its absolutely all there, i promise! Do you have access to the manual? Its downloadable in pdf.
ITODAY/I8YYMD = &YYMD ;
TODAY/YYMD = ITODAY;
THISYEAR/YY = TODAY;
YESTERDAY/YYMD = DATEADD(TODAY,'D',-1);
LASTYEAR1/YYMD = DATEADD(TODAY,'Y',-1);
LASTYEAR/YY = LASTYEAR1 ;
NEXT5YEAR1/YYMD = DATEADD(TODAY,'Y',5);
NEXT5YEAR/YY = NEXT5YEAR1;
 
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Mikel
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Substract 60 months (5 years * 12) from actual Year/Month using AYM() function and concat the actual day.


-SET &YM = EDIT(&YYMD, '999999') ;
-SET &YM60 = AYM(&YM, -60, 'I6') ;
-SET &DATE5 = &YM60 | EDIT(&DMYY, '99') ;
-TYPE Actual date: &YYMD
-TYPE 5 years before: &DATE5

Regards,
Mikel

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<sdavis>
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quote:
Originally posted by Mikel:
[qb] Substract 60 months (5 years * 12) from actual Year/Month using AYM() function and concat the actual day.
-SET &YM = EDIT(&YYMD, '999999') ;
-SET &YM60 = AYM(&YM, -60, 'I6') ;
-SET &DATE5 = &YM60 | EDIT(&DMYY, '99') ;
-TYPE Actual date: &YYMD
-TYPE 5 years before: &DATE5
Regards,
Mikel [/qb]

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quote:
Originally posted by sdavis:
[qb]
quote:
Originally posted by Mikel:
[qb] Substract 60 months (5 years * 12) from actual Year/Month using AYM() function and concat the actual day.


-SET &YM = EDIT(&YYMD, '999999') ;
-SET &YM60 = AYM(&YM, -60, 'I6') ;
-SET &DATE5 = &YM60 | EDIT(&DMYY, '99') ;
-TYPE Actual date: &YYMD
-TYPE 5 years before: &DATE5

Regards,
Mikel [/qb]
[/qb]
Thank you very much Mike for the information;
I will try it and see if it works for me. Appreciate the help.

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TODAY/YYMD = ITODAY;

This is the formate of table
dim_Time_key FiscalYear Period Week
1 2004 01 1

Date CalendarYear FYPW FYP
2003-03-29 2003 2004011 200401

Date is dateformat, Period and week can be calculated from FYPW.
I am trying to get TODAY - 7 as current period because my data gets updated every 7 days, so previous week is my current period and week.

I tried follwing but it didnt work
Current = TODAY - 7
CURPERIOD = FYPW
WHERE Current = DATE

Orignal question was:
How do I get Current Period, Previous 1, Previous 2, Previous 3


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GinnyJakes
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Please move this post to your original post on this topic so we can address it all in one place.


Ginny
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Darin Lee
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Substract 60 months (5 years * 12) from actual Year/Month using AYM() function and concat the actual day.

Try that with a leap year Feb 29 and you come up with an invalid date. I would stick with the DATEADD function.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
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eb
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I remember seeing a variation of this on the forums some time back... Try this:

-SET &5_YRS_AGO = (DATECVT((DATEADD((DATECVT(&YYMD,'I8YYMD','YYMD')),Y,5)),'YYMD','I8YYMD'));


Erfan
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Francis Mariani
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-SET &5_YRS_AGO = (DATECVT((DATEADD((DATECVT(&YYMD,'I8YYMD','YYMD')),Y,-5)),'YYMD','I8YYMD'));
-TYPE &5_YRS_AGO


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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