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Date Convert to Week Ended

CPAul
7 - Meteor

I'm new to Alteryx, hopefully this is an easy question... I'm trying to identify the week ending date based on a date that I have. For example, today's date 07/09/2019 would be the Friday week ended 07/12/2019. Thanks!!

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neilgallen
12 - Quasar

 A pretty brute force method would be to figure out the day of the week (Monday = 2, for example) and then calculate the difference between the given date and Friday (4 days, using our example). Then add that number of days to the original date using a datetimeadd formula.

 

This would need to adjust for Saturdays however, as I'm guessing you'd want the following week, not the previous day.

LordNeilLord
15 - Aurora

Hey @CPAul 

 

I went for an approach that adds 7 days onto your date and then filters for the fridays...

 

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CPAul
7 - Meteor

Clever! thank you!

Paul

CPAul
7 - Meteor

one very minor correction to the solution, the "Condition Expression" in the Generate Rows tool should be:

DateAdd <= DateTimeAdd(Date, 6, "Days")

 

instead of:

DateAdd <= DateTimeAdd(Date, 7, "Days")

 

The original way double counted days that were already a Friday.

 

Thanks again,

Paul

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