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Determine Next Friday's Date

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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.
      David Williams
      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))
        }
        ---


        On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:51 AM, wrote:

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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
        > parameter value.
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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.
          David Williams