Show opening hours in map

[#1]

Hello! I have a listbox with openingshours.

06.00-24.00

06.30-16.00

etc

etc

I want to make a green/red light if the current store is open right now.

So i will make a Gauge chart and change the look.

But it is possible to read the current time and check if the store i open and then have a green/red light if it open or not?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Eric,

You can find current time using function now(), for example:

=timestamp(frac(now()), 'hh:mm:ss')

The problem with this approach is that the function checks time every second, hence consumes CPU.  You can use it with the parameter:
now(2)
In this case it shows time of the document opening.  No checking every second.

Regards,
Michael

[#3]

Yes i have found that. But how can i compare the current timestamp i have it in HH:MM,

And now i want to se if that is between the list box i have, as example 07.00-16.00

[ljackson]

If it was me, I would separate the times so you have an opening time dimension, and a closing time dimension.

Then, in the visual cues, you could write an expression (maybe an IF function), saying if 'now' is bigger than opening time, and less than closing time show as green.   If not show as red.

[#5]

Ok! I can for sure separate the times. So i have two dimensions.

time(Now(1)) gives me the current time in HH:MM.

So how can i write a if statement to check if the currenttime is between opening and closing hour?

A big thank you!!

[#6]

=if(time(now(1))>Open AND time(now(1)<Close, 1)

This is my guess, but that does not work

[Anonymous]

Logic is correct .  It should work if the store is the dimension.

Can you upload an example of your application?

[ThornOfCrowns]

[MM] indicates a two-digit month of the year

[mm] refers to a zero-padded minute between 00 and 59

[#9]

=time(Frac(now(1)))>Open AND time(Frac(now(1)))<Close AND PRU = 'A' AND AREA = 'B'

I know have this expression.

But i want the graph to show for PRU A and AREA B without any choices in the listboxes, But this does not work 😕

[ljackson]

I'm guessing a little bit now, as I can't access my QV at the moment to test it, but I would say you need a expression similar to this:

=time(

          {$<Pru={'A'}, Area={'B'}>}

          Frac(now(1))>Open AND time(Frac(now(1))<Close

          )

The second line shows that for the selection, only show records where Pru=A and Area=B, from this data set the third line will calculate.

Hope that makes sense.

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