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Nams
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Hi All

I have a procedure which has a column 'Next Invoice Date'. I want to set up a selection criteria where this 'Next Invoice Date' defaults to the first of the following month.

Please guide me how to achieve this.

Thank You

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BabakNYC
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There are a lot of ways to get this date. Here's one:

-* This sets current date.
-SET &&CURDATE=&YYMD;
-* This sets first day of this month
-SET &&CMONTH=EDIT(&&CURDATE,'999999') || '01';
-* This sets what the current year-month is based upon todays's date
-SET &CMONTHYYM=EDIT(&&CURDATE,'999999');
-* This sets first day of next month 
-SET &&NMONTH=EDIT(AYM(&CMONTHYYM, 1, 'I6YMD')) || '01';

-TYPE CURRENT DATE: &&CURDATE
-TYPE CURRENT YEAR MONTH: &CMONTHYYM
-TYPE FIRST DAY OF CURRENT MONTH: &&CMONTH
-TYPE FIRST DAY OF NEXT MONTH: &&NMONTH


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Nams
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Thank You for your prompt reply.

The results is what I needed, however I'm unable to figure out how to change the format of the output.

The output is in the following format:
CURRENT DATE: 20170223
CURRENT YEAR MONTH: 201702
FIRST DAY OF CURRENT MONTH: 20170201
FIRST DAY OF NEXT MONTH: 20170301

I want the FIRST DAY OF NEXT MONTH to be displayed as 03/01/2017 (MDYY format).

Can you please advise on how to change the date format.

Thank You


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WF1326
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Try this

-SET &FRMTDATE = EDIT(&&NMONTH, '$$$$99$$') || '/' || EDIT(&&NMONTH, '$$$$$$99') || '/' || EDIT(&&NMONTH, '9999$$$$');


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7703/7705/8105m/8201m/8202m

 
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Francis Mariani
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Nams, did you read the manual? There's a wonderful section on Functions. Also, there are many examples on FocalPoint on how to use Date functions in Dialogue Manager. You should be able to find your answer using a few search techniques.

Regards,


Francis


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Francis Mariani
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Here's one example on using Date functions in Dialogue Manager:

http://forums.informationbuild...451007171#2451007171


Francis


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Nams
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Thank you WF1326 and Francis!

I was able to get the date in MDYY format using the code as suggested by WF1326.

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