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Using Today () for duration of day
Hello, I have setup a formula to generate a category for completion deadlines based on time and date, relative to today. However, using Today () in the formula appears to be keying off of today at midnight (mm/dd/yyyy 00:00:00). Therefore, anything later than midnight today is showing up in the formula category beyond today.
Suspense Category = IF('Main Working List'[Due to Requestor]=TODAY(),"Due Today",if('Main Working List'[Due to Requestor]<NOW(),"Overdue",if('Main Working List'[Due to Requestor]>NOW(),"Due This Week",BLANK())))
Here is a picture of my results. As you can see, items schedule through today are coming up as Due This Week (which is true), but they're also due today.
Any ideas? Do I need to add an additional IF clause that is >=Today()+1 somewhere?
Thank you ChrisMendoza Anonymous and Anonymous for your replies. I think I found another solution. I modified the formula to read [Due to Requestor].[Date] = Today(). Adding the .[Date] appears to have forced the formula to render the correct results.
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Thank you ChrisMendoza Anonymous and Anonymous for your replies. I think I found another solution. I modified the formula to read [Due to Requestor].[Date] = Today(). Adding the .[Date] appears to have forced the formula to render the correct results.
Hey dmouser
You can cast both your column and TODAY as dates to do your comparison. See picture:
Hope this helps,
Parker
Hi dmouser
Remember that Today () returns datetime value with the time "12:00:00 AM" always. Thats why its not matching any records with time beyond 12 am. Anonymous solution will work for you.
Thanks
Raj
- ChrisMendoza
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If I understood your issue it is because TODAY( ) returns 8/7/2018 12:00:00 AM, correct?
You could try something like:
Column = DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(TODAY()),DAY(TODAY()))&" "&TIME(23,59,59)
Then change the Data type to Date/Time and it should return 8/7/2018 11:59:59 PM.
