Calculating Work Day Formulas

We've recently adopted BOBJ/Webi at my company and I find the software to be rather easy to use in some instances and mind-wreckingly hard in others. One roadblock myself and other users are bumping into is calculating work days. A definition of a work day in this instance would be Monday through Friday. The monkey wrench is that we would also like to subtract out holidays, such as July 4th and Thanksgiving. Then end product would be calculating out what work day the current date is and how many days it is out of so that a simple straight-line extrapolation can be made (Metric/Current Work Day)*Total Work Days. Also, what we invoice/ship is not accounted for until the following day... for example, today (2.22.10) would be the 15th workday in February out of 20 total work days.
Appreciate any and all help/assistance/counsel I can get on this.
Ryan

Hi Ryan,
If I have understood your question then I think following solution may help you.
Do you have your Universe created on the top of BW query or is it some other Database?
If it is some other database then create couple of Filter at Universe level: Such as Holidays so that you can use this one to subtract holidays:
For Example:
ucase(Calendar_year_lookup.Holiday_Flag)
ucase(Calendar_year_lookup.Holiday_Flag) = 'Y'
Then you create another Dimension for Work days that would be between Monday to Friday.
Once they are created in Universe you export Universe.
Now create a formula where you would use month minus custom dimension workdays and minus holidays to get actual work days which would be from Monday to Friday and son on.
Basically we can achieve this by using filters and formulas.
Wish you good luck.
Bashir Awan

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Hi Guys,
Can we calculate a working day formula that excludes weekends and holidays in WEBI OR in Universe?
The universe I am working on is using stored procedures, so there are no joins or modelling done. Although there is a workday stored proc that I can bring in the universe.
I am just thinking if there is no modelling or joins done in the universe how will this help me in webi?
Your suggestions will be very helpful.
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One more suggestion I need from you -
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Calendar_Year - 2014
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For Work Day the above code will be 1 and for weekend 0
Derived Table 2 - This will give me the count of working days in current month using the above view and Derived table 1 Below is the code -
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Work_Calendar_VW
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(Calendar_Date BETWEEN CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),MONTH(LastWoringkday()),101) + '/01/'
+ CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),YEAR(LastWoringkday()),101) AS DATE)
AND LastWoringkday()).
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let me know if this is the right approach.
Thanks,
Jitan

Calculating work days in a function

I have a function that will count the total number of days between two weeks. ie May 19, 2010 to June 18, 2010 is 30 total days in my cycle. We dont work on weekend so that 30 days is not correct. The formula below is how i'm calculating the days between cycles. Is there any way to not count the weekends in my cycle? Please see formula below:
TIMESTAMPDIFF(SQL_TSI_DAY, "Release Dim"."Release Cycle Start Date", "Release Dim"."Release Cycle End Date")

Thanks Hammett81.
I used your formula but it's still calculating the days in my cycle as 30. My start date comes from my column "Release Dim"."Release Cycle Start Date" and my end date comes from the column "Release Dim"."Release Cycle End Date". Can you tell me why the formula below is giving me the weekends included in my count?
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Working days formula and Crystal 7 - is it possible?

Post Author: Tim F
CA Forum: Formula
Hi folks,
Really hope someone can help, I'm struggling with writing a report that needs to show the difference between two dates in working days. I've found the same formula posted here several times but cannot get it to return a logical value in my report. I'm wondering if that might be because I'm using an older version of Crystal? The formula in question is this one:
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Post Author: Charliy
CA Forum: Formula
You set up a Running Total. Drag the filed you want Summed, Select Sum as the operation if that is not the default.
Just below that you weill see Radio Buttons that say For Every Record, On Change of Group, On Change of Field, Use a Formula, etc - click the one that says Use a Formula. The Blue Bos to its right will turn Red, click on it, this is where you put your formula: NOT(DATEPART('w',{table.date}) IN [6,7])
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I would like for someone to suggest how would I approach a project in calculating a date that would consider if a date is a holiday or a work day. For example: If I take current date + 7 normally it would be a week (7 days). However, if a day in that week is a holiday, then it would return the 8th day. If the 8th day falls into a weekend, then, get the next work date.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks. This give me a pretty good start. I am thinking that I need a table that store holidays (Non-work days excluding weekend). Once I load this table into memory, then I would check the first date + 7. Then compare the two dates against the array to see if there is a holiday. If there is, then I would increment the end date by 1 and validay if it is a weekend date. If it is, I would continue to incurement until it is nolonger an weekend date. Once I have that, I would check the date against the array (where I left off) and continue to validate to see if there are more holidays.
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Dear Oracle
Is there any function to calculate no of working days if I pass From date & To date?.
Thanks
Christy.

This would work for normal weekdays, but what about bank holidays?
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/

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I have two date Characteristics: say Date1 and Date2. I need to find the number of working days between them based on the factory calendar.
(And yes we have already defined the default factory calendar in IMG under 'General Reporting settings' ).
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Hi,
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Thanks,
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How to set the payment Due date calculation as per working days.

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I want to enter the data as days and hours.
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I'm not using procedure , Operating directly with tables.
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Hello Pari,
Check Exclude Holidays and weekends from Last7Day function link for function to exclude weekends.
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