Workday Function


Earlier this week I received a request for help from Nancy. She was having a problem with a date formula. She wanted to subtract 8 days from the current date.

Well that’s easy enough. =Today()-8  Since the day I wrote this post is Sept 25th, the result is September 17th (8 days prior).

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Current Date
9/25/2012
9/17/2012
=TODAY()-8

However she wanted to only count business days (Nancy did not want to include Saturday or Sunday).

So that changes the formula.

I needed to look only at Workdays. Fortunately Excel has just the function for this.
=WORKDAY(TODAY(),-8)

Since the day I wrote this post is Sept 25th, the result is September 13th (8 workdays prior).


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Current Date
9/25/2012
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9/17/2012
=TODAY()-8


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9/13/2012
=WORKDAY(TODAY(),-8)



So what does the WORKDAY function do?

Well according to the Excel Help… Workday returns a number that represents a date that is the indicated number of working days before or after a date (the starting date). Working days exclude weekends and any dates identified as holidays. Use WORKDAY to exclude weekends or holidays when you calculate invoice due dates, expected delivery times, or the number of days of work performed.”

Now what is really handy here is the ability to identify holidays.

Syntax
WORKDAY(start_date,days,holidays)

Start_date     is a date that represents the start date.

Days     is the number of nonweekend and nonholiday days before or after start_date. A positive value for days yields a future date; a negative value yields a past date.

Holidays     is an optional list of one or more dates to exclude from the working calendar, such as state and federal holidays and floating holidays. The list can be either a range of cells that contain the dates or an array constant (array: Used to build single formulas that produce multiple results or that operate on a group of arguments that are arranged in rows and columns. An array range shares a common formula; an array constant is a group of constants used as an argument.) of the serial numbers that represent the dates.

Remarks from Microsoft…

Important   Dates should be entered by using the DATE function, or as results of other formulas or functions. For example, use DATE(2008,5,23) for the 23rd day of May, 2008. Problems can occur if dates are entered as text .

Microsoft Excel stores dates as sequential serial numbers so they can be used in calculations. By default, January 1, 1900 is serial number 1, and January 1, 2008 is serial number 39448 because it is 39,448 days after January 1, 1900. Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh uses a different date system as its default.

If any argument is not a valid date, WORKDAY returns the #VALUE! error value.

If start_date plus days yields an invalid date, WORKDAY returns the #NUM! error value.

If days is not an integer, it is truncated.

3 comments:

  1. Hi There,


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  2. Salaam,


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    Please recommend how to make this change.

    CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW hr_mc_demo_range
    (
    "Employee Name",
    "Employee No",
    "Asg No",
    "Person Type",
    "Prefix",
    "Exempt or Non-Exempt",
    "Job Name",
    "Job Full Name",
    "Position Name",
    "Position No",
    "Job No",
    "Unit"
    )
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    Best Regards,



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  3. Ni Hau,


    Great info! I recently came across your blog and have been reading along.
    I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have

    yes we can change from manual to automatic and automatic to manual.
    work structures--->organization--->description--->select your business group--->goto classification---->choose business group--->
    --->click on others---->window will get opened again click on it------>go to employee num and change from automatic to manual and save. Workday training USA

    if employee number is manual and you want to change it to automatic
    run concurrent program called"change person number to automatic"there in the parameters you can select employee/applicant/contingent worker





    Once again thanks for your tutorial.


    Obrigado,
    Ajeeth

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