Business Days

Hello all!

I noticed a post or two discussing that there was a Business Days or Workdays-type function in beta and I am wondering if there are any solutions to finding the number of business days between two dates until this solution goes live?

My data is fairly straight forward; assuming two columns [Date 1] and [Date 2] does anyone have an elegant solution to finding the number of business days between these dates? Business days would be defined here as M-F and if possible (although I know this is asking a lot) excluding certain dates that are holidays (I could add these manually to the function as necessary if someone has a way of incorporating this).

Thank you community!

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Gimli

Hello @mbelmont,

I have found two beastmode formulas that will accomplish this:

5* FLOOR(DATEDIFF(`endDate`, `startDate`) /7)  + SUBSTRING('0123444401233334012222340111123400012345001234550', 7 * WEEKDAY(`startDate`) + WEEKDAY(`endDate`) + 1, 1)

AND

CASE WHEN YEARWEEK(`End Date`) = YEARWEEK(`Start Date`) THEN ((DATEDIFF(DATE(`End Date`),DATE(`Start Date`)) - (CASE WHEN DAYOFWEEK(`Start Date`) = 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) - (CASE WHEN DAYOFWEEK(`End Date`) = 7 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END))) ELSE ((DATEDIFF(DATE(`End Date`),DATE(`Start Date`)) - DAYOFWEEK(`End Date`)-(7-DAYOFWEEK(`Start Date`)))*2) + DAYOFWEEK(`End Date`) + (7-DAYOFWEEK(`Start Date`)) - (CASE WHEN DAYOFWEEK(`End Date`) = 7 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) - (CASE WHEN DAYOFWEEK(`Start Date`) = 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)-2 END

Please keep in mind that `End Date` and `Start Date` will need to be replaced with your date columns.

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kshah008

Hi all,

Can anybody help @mbelmont out?

Thanks!

Gimli

Hello @mbelmont,

I have found two beastmode formulas that will accomplish this:

5* FLOOR(DATEDIFF(`endDate`, `startDate`) /7)  + SUBSTRING('0123444401233334012222340111123400012345001234550', 7 * WEEKDAY(`startDate`) + WEEKDAY(`endDate`) + 1, 1)

AND

CASE WHEN YEARWEEK(`End Date`) = YEARWEEK(`Start Date`) THEN ((DATEDIFF(DATE(`End Date`),DATE(`Start Date`)) - (CASE WHEN DAYOFWEEK(`Start Date`) = 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) - (CASE WHEN DAYOFWEEK(`End Date`) = 7 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END))) ELSE ((DATEDIFF(DATE(`End Date`),DATE(`Start Date`)) - DAYOFWEEK(`End Date`)-(7-DAYOFWEEK(`Start Date`)))*2) + DAYOFWEEK(`End Date`) + (7-DAYOFWEEK(`Start Date`)) - (CASE WHEN DAYOFWEEK(`End Date`) = 7 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) - (CASE WHEN DAYOFWEEK(`Start Date`) = 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)-2 END

kshah008

@mbelmont, did ilikenno's reply help you out?

Shevy

Another option is to create a date table that tags days as business days or not. That way you can exclude holidays that your company is closed or whatever criteria you need. The table can be linked to any other table by date and you get a lot of date information that will be consistent. We built our own, but DOMO has one that they share with customers as well.

mbelmont

Thank you so much! Worked perfectly.

user09742

Is there any update on the business days function?

ArborRose

Neither of these formulas worked properly for me. I am currently in the first week of 2024. Dates from half a year ago are not calculating correctly.

JasonAltenburg

@ArborRose how about something in Magic ETL, leveraging the Domo Dimensions calendar (you could write additional case logic with your own calendar superseding this),

like the following:

CASE 

WHEN

holidayDescr IS NOT NULL THEN 0

WHEN

DAYOFWEEK(`dt`) IN (2,3,4,5,6) then 1 else 0

END

ArborRose

Thanks. I found a formula Grant used in a different thread and using my fields it comes out with the correct days.

https://community-forums.domo.com/main/discussion/52686/domo-idea-exchange-beast-modes-business-days-prior-to-today