Set the default value of date type Variable to current date or today's date

ellibot

@Kunal @dnewc @EhubMcCoy @JasonAltenburg @BryantCafferty take a look at this tutorial video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09p-vFuiwcQ

Matt Tannyhill

That's a great workaround @ellibot thanks for sharing!

BryantCafferty

Very cool, @ellibot! Trouble for me is I don't have access to Workflows in my instance. Hopefully @Matt Tannyhill will have good news for us soon on a native solution within the core product soon! 🙏

dnewc

Hi @ellibot - Thanks so much for the info and informative video. We don't have workflows though - and I'm not a programmer by schooling. Do you think this could be done with Python or jupyter? Any thoughts? Appreciate your time!!

DK2

When using a date variable, a new default value 'Today's Date' should be an option. It should take the date of the current timezone of your instance.

This seemingly simple update would be powerful for my team. Right now, any dashboard using a variable is then not able to be turned into a scheduled report because the date variable would always need to be updated before the report goes out.

Bonus: Allow for a calculation like subdate(currentdate(),interval 1 day) to set the default to yesterday.

nmizzell

This feature would be very helpful

nmizzell

Specifically, having the ability to set the default value of a variable to a dynamic value such as current_date(), instead of having to choose one static date.

ArborRose

Bump.

Are we still waiting on this? How many other requests have over a hundred up votes? I concur with @Jones01, not just default to current date, but to a beast mode formula would be ideal.