Laura,
You need two tools, conversions and whole set of QB Formulas called Rounding and Truncating
You can use these to break up the Duration into smaller pieces that can then be displayed as Years, Months and Days. However we should make two assumptions
- All years are 365 days long
- All months are 31 days long
This is not really true because of leap years and even and odd months. If you cannot live with these assumptions then this gets
much more complicated.
The easiest part is how many total days someone has been there.
That gives you a number which can be from zero to really big. Once this goes over 31 then you have your first month.
When Total Days goes over 365 we have our first year. I would do this going backwards from year to month to day
var number TotalNumDays = ToDays([Duration]);
var number TotalNumYears = $TotalNumDays/365; // Quick Base does not have a function ToYears() which is a bummer, so we made one
//Calculate Years to Display
var number DisplayYears = (Floor($TotalNumYears));
//Calculate Months to Display
var number DisplayMonths= Floor(($TotalNumYears-$DisplayYears)*12);
// Calculate Days to Display
var number DisplayDays= $TotalNumDays-$DisplayYears*365 - $DisplayMonths*31;
//Display
ToText($DisplayYears) & " Years " & "<br>" & ToText($DisplayMonths) & " Months" & "<br>" & ToText($DisplayDays) & " Days"
Play with it and you will get some text output.
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Don Larson
Paasporter
Westlake OH
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