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Help Calculating First Day of the Month

FM-Monster
in Calculation Engine (Define Fields)

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I am trying to take a date, that could be any day of a particular month, and use a calculation that will determine the first day of the month that the date falls in. For example if the user enters 6/16/06 the calculatin will result in 6/1/06 (the first day of the month). Please help if you can...

This should work as a calculation of type Date:

Date ( Month ( Entered Date ); 1; Year ( Entered Date ))

Where Entered Date is the Date field you want to alter.

Does this work?

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Yes it did!!! Thanks scolesm... Some day I will figure out all this FM stuff. Thanks a million.

But this seems a bit easier to write:

EnteredDate + 1 - Day ( EnteredDate )

Perhaps the following, could restore the image of being just slightly crafty:

EnteredDate - Day ( EnteredDate-1 )

It's political science here, not just one cut but two, it shows willingness to be executive even when it hurts :)

--sd

Yes, you're completely right about this. I didn't need to reference that many fields in the calculation.

Better solution,

M

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