copying a date to another column

[KI5JEB]

I have a situation where we have records that were closed but because the Date Closed field was not automatically populated by the Closed Status in past records it was left blank. For reporting purposes, I want to copy the Date Modified (which is never left null) into the Date Closed field when the record status is Closed so that it will have at least a rough estimate of when the record was closed. Here is the logic:

IF ([Date Closed] = Null() or [Date Closed] = "") AND [Request Status] = "Closed" THEN [Date Closed] = [Modified]
ELSE [Date Closed]
ENDIF

The problem I'm having is that when I do [Date Closed] = [Modified], the new date in the [Date Closed] field appears as '1899-12-30 00:00:00' instead of the actual date from the [Modified] field. How can I fix this?

Thanks

[BenMoss]

Your formula should be...

IF ([Date Closed] = Null() or [Date Closed] = "") AND [Request Status] = "Closed" THEN [Modified]
ELSE [Date Closed]
ENDIF

instead of  [Date Closed] = [Modified] we just need [Modified]

otherwise your statement is saying then TRUE which is why you are getting that date.

Ben

[Storm · Accepted solution]

Hi @KI5JEB:

I think your error lies in this portion of your code:

THEN [Date Closed] = [Modified]

Believe this portion of the code should simply be this:

THEN [Modified]

I tested this with success, after duplicating your issue when using your code.  Please try this suggestion and see if it fixes your issue!

[KI5JEB]

That fixed it. I should have known that... Thank you. :)

Jeff Beaty
Data Analyst
Tech Ops IT - Data Management
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