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

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Emily McAllister>,

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

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

Try this

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

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,

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

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

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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