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First day of a week

Cpirino
8 - Asteroid

Hi, I have a week number like a 35 and I need the first day of this week.

 

 

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TylerNa
10 - Fireball

You'll need to have the year associated with the week number and then you can utilize one of these solutions.

 

steven-barsalou
8 - Asteroid

There are some other good leads to a solution above.  It all depends on how you define the first week of the year, but you can calculate a formula to calculate the Monday of the week, order them, then add a record ID.  That will give you a week number.

 

To calculate the Monday of the week, you can use a formula like the one below.  This is SQL, but you should be able to easily convert it into an Alteryx formula.

Cast(calendar_date - ((calendar_date- Cast('1900-01-01' As Date)) Mod 7 ) As Date) As monday_of_week

jwalder
10 - Fireball

Presumes current year by using DateTimeNow() but that could be replaced with an date in a column to get the year of it instead. [week] is then the numeric week number. Using these offsets, Sunday is first day.

 

DateTimeAdd(DateTimeAdd(DateTimeTrim(DateTimeNow(),'year'),[week]*7,'days'),switch(DateTimeFormat(DateTimeAdd(DateTimeTrim(DateTimeNow(),'year'),[week]*7,'days'),'%a'),0,'Mon',-1,'Tue',-2,'Wed',-3,'Thu',-4,'Fri',-5,'Sat',-6,'Sun',0),'days')

AlRoBo
5 - Atom

I wanted to get the first day of the week using a single formula instead of a bunch of tools, so I converted this from steven-barsalou's SQL as recommended.

 

I wanted my week to begin with Sunday, so I changed '1900-01-01' to '1899-12-31'. Here is the Alteryx formula:

 

DateTimeAdd([DateTimeNow],Mod(
DateTimeDiff(ToDate('1899-12-31'),[DateTimeNow],'days')
,7),'days')

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