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SP

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5/31/2012 1:25 PM

Does anyone know how to determine the exact date of the upcoming Friday in ProcessFlow? I have a flow that needs to run multiple times during a week. Upon each run, it the flow needs to determine the date for the upcoming Friday and then set that as a job parameter.

I was hoping to use something similar to Date.today().next(),friday(), but processFlow does not seem to like that. I presume this is because date.js is not on my server and if it were, Lawson doesn't know anything about it.

Is there a way to get ProcessFlow to recoginize javascript routines that are not contained in pflow.js?

Does anyone know an easy way to determine the date of the upcoming Friday ProcessFlow?

I could create multiple flows that run on specific days and just use the AddDay function, but I would prefer to have one flow if possible.

TIA,
-SP

David Williams

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5/31/2012 1:46 PM

There is a JavaScript function .getDay() which will return a numeric value for the day of the week. If your current date is the variable d then you would use d.getDay() to return the numeric value. Sunday=0, Monday=1, etc.
You could calulate the difference between the current day of the week value and Friday's value and then use the AddDay function to get to your parameter value.

SP

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5/31/2012 4:33 PM

Thanks David. I knew it was probably pretty simple.

FWIW, here is the code I used:

---
if(todaynumb== 6)
{ nextfriday = AddDay(todayjs,6)
}
else
{ nextfriday = AddDay(todayjs, (5 - todaynumb))
}
---

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> 05/31/2012 08:46 AM There is a JavaScript function .getDay() which will
> return a numeric value for the day of the week. If your current date is the
> variable d then you would use d.getDay() to return the numeric value.
> Sunday=0, Monday=1, etc.
> You could calulate the difference between the current day of the week
> value and Friday's value and then use the AddDay function to get to your
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David Williams

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5/31/2012 5:18 PM

I reference the JavaScript help at www.w3schools.com all of the time when I'm trying to find a function to meet my needs.