Qlikview Days Between Two Dates
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The networkdays() function is commonly used as part of an expression when the user would like the calculation to use the number of working week days that occur between two dates. For example, if a user would like to calculate the total wages that will be earned by an employee on a PAYE (pay-as-you-earn) contract.
Unless otherwise specified, the examples in this topic use the following date format: MM/DD/YYYY. The date format is specified in the SET DateFormat statement in your data load script. The default date formatting may be different in your system, due to your regional settings and other factors. You can change the formats in the examples below to suit your requirements. Or you can change the formats in your load script to match these examples.
Because there are no scheduled holidays (this would have been present in the third argument of the networkdays() function), the function subtracts the start_date from the end_date, as well as all weekends, to calculate the number of working days between the two dates.
The calendar above visually outlines the project with id of 5. Project 5 begins on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 and ends on August 26, 2022. With all Saturdays and Sundays ignored, there are 13 working days between, and including, these two dates.
The calendar above visually outlines project 5, demonstrating this adjustment to include the holiday. This holiday occurs during project 5 on Friday, August 19, 2022. As a result, the total net_work_days value for project 5 decreases by one day, from 13 to 12 days.
The calendar above visually outlines project 5, demonstrating this adjustment to include these holidays. This period of scheduled holidays occurs during project 5, with two of the days occurring on a Thursday and Friday. As a result, the total net_work_days value for project 5 decreases from 13 to 11 days.
The Networkdays () returns the number of working days (Monday-Friday) between and including StartDate and EndDate taking into account any optionally listed holidays. All parameters should be valid dates or timestamps.
I'm trying to calculate the number of days between two dates with the idea that I will create a dimension to accumulate the number of cases in aging buckets. (0-30, 31-60, 61-90 etc....) I thought I understood this well enough but I guess I don't. I'm a novice user.
This is my script. As far as I know DATE_INVESTIGATION_STARTED is a date field since it is one in the source system. Could the property change once it is loaded into Qlikview? How can I check to see if it is date, string, number....etc???? Thanks!!!!
To check if DATE_INVESTIGATION_STARTED is a date field or not. I would create a straight table with DATE_INVESTIGATION_STARTED as dimension and Num(DATE_INVESTIGATION_STARTED) as expression. If QlikView identify it as date you will see Numbers, other wise you will see nulls (or no rows at all).
My issue starts right before the SQL statement after I create the field to retain the current date. When I insert the expression to caluclate the number of days the error pops up. I don't know if its my expression or the fact that one field might not be a date..........I'm learning quickly but just dont have the comfort level to diagnose the issue and create the buckets I'm looking to create.
Sunny T - thanks for your help - didnt know I couldn't work off a created field. In another package I use I'm able to use the created fields as long as its in the correct order. Really appreciate your help!
You can use this in any following tables (resident or preceding loads), but for this table, CreatedDate is still in the making. Same is true if you are renaming a field. For example, you cannot do this:
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