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Calculated Dates (taking into Account Holidays)
First, calculations generally should not be stored in tables (although there are some exceptions which probably aren't applicable here).
A lot of developers have created functions to calculate due dates, etc. Most involve, as your does, a holiday table. I can provide mine, but you might find some simpler to follow because they're already laid out for sharing.
HI George,
thank you. I am trying to get it working.
I dont know if this is what I am after since it returns a count between 2 dates and I am not looking for the count but rather a date based on the count but possibly could get it working. Also the holidays in the codes are only Federal Holidays but I need to include dates on top of those dates and modifying the fixed dates in the codes is not easy due to the way the count is.
I have an error on "Throw"
Assume a reference needs to be addedDo you happen to know what reference it could be?
I have the following references:
Agreed. It will take some work to implement any of the common sources in a way that meets your needs.
I have a whole module devoted to this kind of date related calculations, but I hesitated to offer it because it is pretty complicated. I recommended Mike's blog because I admire his work and it's usually pretty straightforward.
As you noted, you will have to maintain the holidays table with any dates your organization observes as holidays. That is going to vary by organization.
I don't see anything in that screenshot that tells me what the problem is, unfortunately.
I have a module for many kinds of date calculations, but I'm not sure it has anything in it that meets your needs directly. Check it out. Import the two files in this attached zip into your VBE environment.
I'll poke around some more, I know I've seen similar functions; it's just a matter of the right search words in Google.
thank you George. I poked around in those modules. Interesting. I saw something named "tlkpHoliday" (below pic). I assume that is a table and maybe I could change my holiday table to that name. I see also a dProposedDate, dStartDate and dEndDate and not certain how I can assign them in my case. I have not read all of it though. Probabaly wouldnt make much of a difference if I did since most of it I unfortunately dont understand, which you hinted that I might not be able to. I will keep poking around in it. thank you for the assistance.
