I am trying to produce a field in a MS Access file that calculates one type of variable against another.
The variables are currency per time.
How would "£/hr" or salary per hour be written in Microsoft Access
Is it possible?
Use data type Currency. A value could be £50.
Then, If [HoursWorked] is another field of data type Currency and having the hours worked, use a query to calculate the salary:
Salary: [SaleryPerHour] * [HoursWorked]
If [HoursWorked] holds 4.5, Salary will be £225.00
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Is is possible in a Table to Calculate differences between Dates if the Value in the field is considered "short text"?
I am working to convert an Excel macro database into Access one and I have imported the data from the Excel file into an Access Table.
however i realized 2 feilds that count up until closure are now just fixed numbers but need to add up as each day passes until closure
when i imported the Dates became Short Text.
is there an expression that would handle this situation?
Each record has a serialized non repeating ID number seperate from access as well.
Dates I have are
OfficialissuanceDate,
DatePlanSubmitted,
DatePlanCompletedSubmitted,
DateClosed,
I need 2 calculations that increments daily when DateplanSubmitted and DatePlanCompletedSubmitted are null
Both comparing to OfficialIssuanceDate. then stop counting when they are no longer null. (have a date in updated to the record) and retain the value.
I have tried to Google calculating Dates but i get DateDiff function which doesnt appear to work. I've used Access and taken a class on it but never really made a new DB from scratch
Dates in a text field are not actual dates, just strings of characters. A Date/Time field stores value as a double number then displays in a date structure - "dd/mm/yyyy" is Access default structure.
Sometimes Access will do implicit conversion of data but not in this case. Either change field type to Date/Time or do conversion with CDate() function. However, you will find that conversion functions error with Null input.
Arithmetic operation with Date/Time field type is possible. However, arithmetic when any term is null returns Null so have to deal with that. One way uses Nz() function: Nz([DateClosed], Date()) - [DateOpened]. Unfortunately, Nz() is not available in table Calculated field type, so do that calc in query or textbox. Most developers avoid table Calculated field type. If you really want to use, expression would have to be: IIf(IsNull([DateClosed), Date(), [DateClosed]) - [DateOpened].
in my ms access query i have a column named [Hours & Minutes]. the column values are taken as "(((tblA.TotalMins) &':'&(mid (tblA.TotalHours,4,2))) as [Hours & Minutes]". it is a string type i want to sum it so i want to convert it into a HH:MM format for calculation or any format for calculation
Your expression doesn't make sense, as it seems to interchange hours:minutes to minuttes:hours.
If your field holds text like "22:45", this can easily be converted:
DateValue([TextTime]) As TrueTime
If you have a field for hours and another for minutes, use TimeSerial:
TimeSerial([TotalHours],[TotalMinutes],0) As TrueTime
I am attempting to create a parameter which looks at the values of a field in the report which is calculated based on the entry of another parameter.
Specifically, the first parameter is a number option (30,60 or 90) and the field expression is a DATEADD that adds the parameter value to the value of a date field.
The next parameter I need is to pick dates in the "expression field" that fall into a certain range. i.e. user chooses 30 so the report generates and populates the "Hire Date" + 30.
I want to then only select the records where that new date falls into a specified range i.e. Effective Date 2/1/2020-2/29/2020. I have been looking everywhere, but cannot find an answer and I don't know if it is possible.
Results example
[EffDate Field[\]\[1\]][1]
I think this was what SuperSimmer 44 was referring to that I couldn't understand before.
I added the following parameters:
Wait - which is an integer & has set available values of 30, 60 & 90
From - Date
To - Date
I kept the field "Effective Date" in my report which was the expression =DateAdd("d",Parameters!wait.Value,Fields!HireDate.Value)
I then added a filter to the Dataset that said if the value of the expression =DateAdd("d",Parameters!wait.Value,Fields!HireDate.Value) was between #from & #to then they should include the record in the results. It worked perfectly.
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Insert 2 parameters, one called qty to hold available values from a list 30/60/90 or 120 etc
the other called date to hold your from effective date.
Set up a calculated field in your dataset called effectivedate that utilised DateAdd, for example ie: =DateAdd("d",Parameters!qty.Value,Parameters!effectivedate.Value)
Then set a filter on your dataset that utilizes this calculated field.
I'm trying to pull some data from a query in my database into a calculated field in a table. I have dates entered for some jobs I'm recording (DateCallOpened, DateQuoteSent, DateQuoteReceived), as well as WorkType for each job to track the type of work done. I've used calculated fields to find the time it took for each record between those dates. I've also used qryTimings to find the average length of time for the WorkType.
I'd like to build fields that showed the ProjectedQuoteSent, and use the data from my query to calculate the date I can expect the quote to be sent, but I just can't figure out how to pull that data out of the query. I was hoping it would be something as simple as:
=[DateCallOpened]+[qryTimings]:[Avg Of TimeToSendQuote]
You can use a DLookup() function to grab your value from your query. So your formula would be something like:
=[DateCallOpened]+DLookup("Avg Of TimeToSendQuote", "qryTimings", _
"[WorkType]=" & [Forms]![frmMyForm]![txtWorkTypeInput])
See this for more info.
What is the correct function to use when i want to convert a date to a number. Like when you enter a date in excel for example (now()) and then it will show the date but when you click on the number format it will show you a number.
I tried to use Unix timestamp but its not exactly the output i was looking for.
The date i entered is today's date
=now()
and the output i was hoping to get is
42146
what's the correct function to get this result in mysql?
Thank you
Microsoft Excel bases date serial numbers from Jan 1, 1904 or from Jan 1, 1900 (depends on the setting in the workbook.)
To generate a date "serial number" similar to what Excel uses, just calculate the number of days between NOW() (or whatever date you want to convert), and the base date. For example:
SELECT DATEDIFF(NOW(),'1900-01-01') AS excel_serial_date_1900
(You might need to add 1 or subtract 1 to get the exact same value that Excel uses, I've not tested that.) If your Excel workbook is using the 1904 based serial date, use '1904-01-01' as the base date in the expression.
Note: the DATEDIFF function returns integer number of days, operates only on the "date" portion, and doesn't include any fraction of a day.
Reference: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_datediff