Business Days

PEFS · Post by **PEFS** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:28 am

I am trying to figure out how to add business days to an existing date attribute. I have a contact date attribute that is entered by the user, I then want another date to populate for a follow-up attribute date to be 3 business days from the contact date.

I couldn't figure out how to make it work with the Business_Day_Forward function as it only adds one business day.

Thanks for your help

aware_support2 · Post by **aware_support2** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:18 am

Yes, you are right, function BUSINESS_DAY_FORWARD should allow specifying the number of days to add. This is an oversight on our part and we will fix it shortly. It the meantime you can use the following workaround to add 3 business days:

MyObject.FollowUpDate = BUSINESS_DAY_FORWARD(BUSINESS_DAY_FORWARD(BUSINESS_DAY_FORWARD(MyObject.ContactDate)))

PEFS · Post by **PEFS** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:32 pm

I used the format that you included and it returns a date but it is the same date as the Contact Date.

I included the Business Rule in the Business Object and pasted into the "Then" section.

Am I doing this wrong?

Thanks

aware_support2 · Post by **aware_support2** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:29 pm

This is a bug that has now been fixed starting from build 838. This build also allows a parameter for function BUSINESS_DAY_FORWARD so you can now re-write the rule like this:

MyObject.FollowUpDate = BUSINESS_DAY_FORWARD(MyObject.ContactDate, 3)