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Find the closest date out of 2 other columns

wonka1234
10 - Fireball

Hi,

 

Say I have [column1] with a date value of 2023-07-11 and

 

[column2] with a value of 2023-07-31 

 

and [column 3] with a value of 2023-08-30

 

how can I find the column closed to column 1 in a formula? the answer would be column 2 in this instance.

1 REPLY 1
FrederikE
13 - Pulsar

Hey @wonka1234,

 

IF
DateTimeDiff([Field1],[Field2],'days')
>
DateTimeDiff([Field1],[Field3],'days')
THEN "Field2"
ELSE "Field3"
ENDIF

Screenshot 2023-08-14 170253.png

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