Question
Tata Consultancy Services
IN
Last activity: 6 Apr 2018 0:37 EDT
Today in function alias for RD
When I use a condition pxCreateDateTime = Today in Report Definition, I could see the query gets generated as (pxcreatedatetime >= 'StartDateTime' and pxcreatedatetime <= 'EndDateTime') (where start and end date time are automatically calculated by Pega while generating the query).
How do I use this condition while creating a function alias to be used in RD? When I directly use an input param (date time type) = Today, it gives error at run time.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Hello,
Unfortunately the special date conditions like "Today" and "Last 7 days" (we call these symbolic dates) are a special feature of report filters and do not extend to function aliases. When implementing conditional logic around dates in function aliases, you will have to calculate the relevant date ranges and compare them manually. You can use the function aliases featured in the Pega platform rulesets as a guide.
Tata Consultancy Services
IN
Thanks Trevor for the clarification.
So, are you suggesting that we can set the start and end date manually somewhere on clipboard and use the condition (pxcreatedatetime >= Start date and pxcreatedatetime <= end date as generated by Pega in final query) in RD?
I found one alias for SYS_DATE. Can we build something around this to implement this requirement?