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DanielFuhriman's avatar
DanielFuhriman
Qrew Member
5 years ago

Duration formula that only counts Monday-Saturday, excludes Sundays.

Hi! I was wondering if anyone knew a duration formula that only counts Monday- Saturday, excluding Sundays? I am aware of the formula WeekdaySub that counts only weekdays.  Any help would be app...
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BlakeHarrison's avatar
BlakeHarrison
Qrew Captain
5 years ago
So, just for clarity, WeekdaySub is a function, not a formula in and of itself. A formula would be how you end up using that - or other - functions to perform your calculation.

For your example, you'll need to do several different calculations to come up with your final solution. If you're using this as part of Time Off calculations, I have to think there would be a better/easier way. Can you put up a screen-shot of your request form and explain a bit more about what this calculation is supposed to represent? Maybe we can figure out an alternative solution.

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bharrison@datablender.io
DataBlender - Quick Base Solution Provider
Atlanta GA
404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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DanielFuhriman's avatar
DanielFuhriman
Qrew Member
5 years ago
The current formula that I am using is: ToDays([To Date]-[From Date])+1

It would be nice to be able to exclude Sunday's if possible, so in this example it would only show 7 days taken off instead of 8. Another example would be if someone took off from 1-12-21 to 1-26-21 it would show 13 days were take off since two Sundays were in the timeframe.


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Daniel Fuhriman
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    BlakeHarrison
    Qrew Captain
    5 years ago
    I realize your setup is definitely easier for your users, but have you considered other options for how your requests might work? I recently just setup a PTO process and ended up with a form that allows the user to enter different data for each day of the week. So, for example, they need a 1/2 day off on Thursday, but then a full day off on Friday. Here's how I laid that out.




    The benefit to this - or something similar - is that you can more easily determine PTO used and provide a more flexible layout for the user. Granted, the user is now limited to a single week at a time, but every solution will have some caveats.

    For this setup, I have an approval process that kicks off a Pipeline that creates individual Approved PTO records for each day the user has been approved for. I then do Summary fields up to their Annual record to keep track of how much of each PTO type they've used, how much is left, etc.


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    Blake Harrison
    bharrison@datablender.io
    DataBlender - Quick Base Solution Provider
    Atlanta GA
    404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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