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Challenge #86: Create a Macro that Generates Past Dates

ch12345
7 - Meteor

It's definitely not best practice, but here's one way of doing this:

 

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JoBen
11 - Bolide

That was fun! Cheers!

dsmdavid
11 - Bolide

My verbose approach. I like more the versions with detour that I've seen above.

 

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JacobR77
8 - Asteroid
 
pasccout
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution...

 

I had to change the extensions to upload...

Laurap1228
11 - Bolide

Here is my solution:

 

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CM17
6 - Meteoroid

Here is my solutionHere is my solution

jssandom
8 - Asteroid

Nice and straightforward with 'Generate Rows' tool!

kelly_gilbert
13 - Pulsar

This was good macro practice, and not too bad considering the Advanced tag!

 

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After looking at others' solutions, I'm going to go back and try this with Detour tools, which I've never used.

I handled the skip-weekends option within the Generate Rows formula
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NilsM
8 - Asteroid
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my solution