Does anyone have any guidance for using a formula/function in a beast mode or using the regex functionality to ensure Domo recognizes all of the dates below as the same?
You can wrap a couple REPLACE functions around your field that replaces the hyphens and periods with slashes followed by the DATE function to format these as date. It would look something like this:
DATE( REPLACE( REPLACE(`String`,'-','/') ,'.','/') )
Thanks - that worked for most of the entries - but now all the ones that had 22 as the year vs. 2022 still aren't showing up well. So I'm left with the remaining formats:
I thought about doing a replace on 22 to 2022 but I'm afraid that will impact 5/22/2022 items.
Can you post your formula? Wrapping the DATE function around everything should normalize the years.
DATE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(`Interview Scheduled Date`,'-','/')
,'.','/')
)
Actually the dataset errored out - let me investigate further.
It keeps erroring out noting "Failed to convert value '005/27/22' from type 'String' to type 'Date'."
I then added to your formula
replace(REPLACE(
REPLACE(`Interview Scheduled Date`,'/','-')
,'.','-'),'00','0')
But I got this result, "Failed to convert value '05-27-22' from type 'String' to type 'Date'."
See how close this gets you:
DATE( REPLACE( REPLACE( REPLACE(`Interview Scheduled Date`,'00','') ,'-','/') ,'.','/') )
This still might not work for 100% of your data because it seems like you have rows with 2 digit years in different spots and Domo won't know if that is a year or a day. You might need to try and thinking about incorporating a case statement as well and performing different logic based on certain conditions.
Got it - I will look at the case logic - from your last note - I got the following error:
"Failed to convert value '22/04/18' from type 'String' to type 'Date'."
I think the logic is helpful enough - I think I will have to add some data validation to the front end.
