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Guide Section: Date Formats in an EASAP | EASAP Tree: EVENT PROCESSING → ACTION
DATE FUNCTION carries out date operations in common with Excel's date functions.
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Essential Parameters: | |
Action: | The action to perform with the input. |
Result: | The name of a new explicit SCALAR which will contain the resulting value. |
Optional Parameters: | |
Input Pattern: | The date pattern corresponding to the input value, by default→Excel Date, see Date Formats in an EASAP. |
Start Date: | Apply Action: to this start date. (Applies when Action:→ DateAdd, EOMonth or DateDiff) |
End Date: | Apply Action: to this end date. (Applies when Action:→DateDiff) |
Increment: | An integer number of Intervals: to be added, negative numbers allowed. (Applies when Action:→DateAdd) |
Intervals: | Choose an interval of Days, Months or Years. (Applies when Action: → DateAdd or DateDiff) |
Months: | An integer number of months to be counted, negative numbers allowed. (Applies when Action:→EOMonth) |
Days: | An integer number of days to be counted, negative numbers allowed. (Applies when Action:→WorkDay) |
Decimal Places: | The number of digit to the right of the decimal place. (Applies when Action:→YearFrac) |
Do if: | Logical expression, if TRUE then action performed, if FALSE then action NOT performed. |