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MicahHope
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6 years ago

I need to Sort/Group By Two Different Date Fields

I have two date fields in a form for potential/admitted patients ? ?Inquiry Date? and ?Admission Date.? Every form has an Inquiry Date but there might not be an Admission Date. I would like to create a bar chart showing how many inquiries and admissions I have had per month. I have already created formulas to count the number of each date (EX: COUNT([Inquiry Date])). These Count Formulas work well as they show the information I want but, my problem is that a patient can inquiry in one month and be admitted the next. How do I sort/group by a date when there are two dates to consider? Any suggestions would be great. Thank you!

 EX: Patient?s Inquiry Date is July 30, but Admission Date is Aug 1. When I sort by either date field and group by Month. The patient is either assigned to July as an inquiry or to August as an admission. How can I count the patient as an July inquiry AND an August admission?
  • The simplest way is to have two separate reports.

    But if you really want to have 1 report then you need to have two records to chart.  To do that you would need to have a child table on the Patient table and use automations to maintain the children.

    Basically you would have an Automation that would trigger whenever a Patient is created or modified and either of those dates change, to delete the existing child records  and then add them back.