topic Re: Make an integer a date format in QlikView

Make an integer a date format

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:27:30 GMT

Hello,

I am using an Informix database and I only want to select the records of this date.

However, the date field has the following format:

7869187

The date can be calculated as follows: 9.000.000 - 7.869.187 = 1.130.813 = 113-08-13 (format 1YY-MM-DD).

I would have to get rid of the 1 in front of the number, and create a date format.

How can i accomplish this?

tresB — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:31:26 GMT

try :

Date(Date#(Mid( 9000000-Num(YourDateField),1), YYMMDD), 'YY-MM-DD') as Date

Gysbert_Wassenaar — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:36:56 GMT

Try Date(Date#(8000000-YourDateField), YYMMDD), 'YY-MM-DD') as Date

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:46:10 GMT

Thank you. I also need a variable with the date of today in this format. Any ideas?

When I use num(today()) I get 41444

tresB — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:51:56 GMT

try:

Date(today(),'YY-MM-DD')

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:22:30 GMT

the result has to be 7.869.187

tresB — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:27:15 GMT

this?

=9000000-Num(today())

CELAMBARASAN — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:33:07 GMT

You can use get from this

=9000000 - Num#(Text(Date(Today(),'1YYMMDD')),'#')

Hope it helps

Celambarasan

rbecher — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:46:09 GMT

If num(today()) = 41499 on 2013-08-13 then use:

=7910686-num(today())

to get as result: 7869187

- Ralf