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I need a formula to Subtract Today from a date and return the difference in weekdays only if another field is blank

  • April 27, 2017
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I need a formula to Subtract Today from a date and return the difference in weekdays only if another date field is blank. So basically I want to know how many days late an order is if it hasn't shipped. I have a order due date field and a ship date field. 

So I want to count the number of working days past due if the ship date field is blank.

Thanks for your help. 
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      • ChrisChris
      • Quickbase Alumni
      • April 27, 2017
      Formula Numeric field would go like --

      if(
      isnull([ship date]),
      weekdaysub(Today(),ToDate([order date])),null
      )
      • ScottGraham
      • Author
      • Quickbase Alumni
      • April 27, 2017
      Thank you for the help. I am getting the following error.
      The types of the arguments or the number of arguments supplied do not meet the requirements of the function ToDate.

      The function ToDate can be used with the following arguments:
      • ToDate (Text x).
      • ToDate (Text x, Text f).
      • ToDate (Date/Time x).
      • ChrisChris
      • Quickbase Alumni
      • April 27, 2017
      The [Order Date] field may already be a Date type, so just remove the function ToDate() that is wrapped around the [Order Date] field.
      • ScottGraham
      • Author
      • Quickbase Alumni
      • April 27, 2017
      So this is what I have now and it is not returning a value.

      if(isnull([Ship Date]),
      weekdaysub(Today(),([Booked Date])),null
      )
      • ScottGraham
      • Author
      • Quickbase Alumni
      • April 27, 2017
      I was able to get it to work by changing the formula type. Thank you!
      • MichaelBarrow
      • Quickbase Alumni
      • April 27, 2017
      Check the setting on your Ship Date field for "Treat blank values as '0' in calculations". Make sure that is unchecked.
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