Is it possible to use a DateDiff formula within a single field?

Post Author: EarthMover
CA Forum: Formula
I have a field that lists transaction times for the signing on and off of maintenance tickets.
My problem is that since both the sign-on and the sign-off are in the same field, I don't have the
option of using the DateDiff formula like I normally would ex: DateDiff ("Interval",startDatetime, endDateTime).
Because the start-date and end-date are in the same field, the formula returns no value. To combat this
I believe that an IF/THEN/ELSE statement would work, if I made one for the start-date and one for the end-date.
My transaction field is using a DateTime format ex: 10/28/2007 11:58:07. I tried making the IF portion of the statement
dependant on another field that tells me if they've signed off or on ex: ACDN or ACUP, both of these are examples of someone
signing on to a ticket, and signing off of a ticket results in: COMP. Based on this information I believe it should be possible to create
a conditional statement to return to the information I require. I've attached an example of what I see, at the bottom.
I've only been using Crystal for a couple of weeks now, so I'm still learning, any help would be greatly appreciated.
PROBLEM DESC TEXT    COND   TRANSACTION TIME
NEED RAILING FIXED       ACUP    10/25/2007   12:43:16AM
NEED RAILING FIXED       COMP   10/25/2007   2:35:22PM

Post Author: yangster
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well this is what i can think of off the top of my head to deal with your problemyou are going to need create a variable for both begin and end date and this will have to be evaluated at the group footer levelHere is the sample data i will be working withID Condition TimeABC ACUP 10/25/2007ABC COMP 10/26/2007DEF ACUP 10/25/2007DEF COMP 10/27/2007create a group on the unique id, this will seperate ABC from DEFnext create the formulas to strip out the begin and end dates@begin_date_init (place in group id header)whileprintingrecords;datetimevar begin_date := datetime(0000, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00)@begin_date_eval (place in detail section)whileprintingrecords;datetimevar begin_date;if left(condition, 2) = "AC" then begin_date := time@begin_date_display (place in group id footer)whileprintingrecords;datetimevar begin_date;begin_date;the end date is identical except the if statement will be if condition = COMP then end_date := timeafter you've dropped these formulas in their appropriate places in the reportsupress the detail and group header sectionsyou will see that you will see something along the lines ofABC 10/25/2007 10/26/2007DEF 10/25/2007 10/27/2007so its just a matter of creating a simple formula to calculate the diff between your 2 variables@date_diffdatediff("d", @begin_date_display, @end_date_display)this should do what you are trying to do, the layout may be different then you have pictured so you can play with it but its a starting pointswell i'm off to whistler for some R&R if this doesn't work i'm sure someone else here can try to help you figure out something that works

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