Business Days

mbelmont
mbelmont 🟡
in Data Platform & Data Science

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!

 

M

Best Answer

  • Gimli
    Gimli

    domo

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    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
    kshah008 🟠

    Hi all,

     

    Can anybody help @mbelmont out?

    Thanks!

  • kshah008
    kshah008 🟠

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

  • Shevy
    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.
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  • mbelmont
    mbelmont 🟡

    Thank you so much!  Worked perfectly.

  • user09742
    user09742 ⚪️

    Is there any update on the business days function?

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