Calculating Time Difference in CFM

I can't help how it looks because of the way it imports from the text file.  The login and logout data is on the same line so that is the way it is displayed.  If I could get it to look like this:

Employee - Logout Time - Login Time - Reason - Total Logged Out (h:m)
Employee1 -               - 8:00 AM - Personal - 0:05
Employee1 - 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM - Personal - 0:05
Employee1 - 12:00 PM - 12:58 PM - Lunch - 0:58
Employee1 - 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM - Personal - 0:15
Employee1 - 5:00 PM -             - End of Shift -

...then I would; because that makes much more sense (I'm with ya).

I tried your suggestion but that didn't work...it said that eval was undefined.  Probably because on the last line it is looking for a line after it but there is none because the employee was logged out and done for the day and didn't log back in until tomorrow morning.  I appreciate your thoughts though.  I am going to let posted a few more days to see if anyone else wants to add some words of wisdom.  Thanks mrichmon!

Too bad about the input, but you could adjust how it is displayed after it is read in so that it displays the way you indicated.

whoops eval is javascript.  It should be evaluate for CF.

Also you need a test to make sure that if it is the last record you don't try to access it.

<cfif currentRow NEQ recordcount>
#evaluate(logointime[currentrow +1] - logouttime)
<cfelse>
- End Of Shift -
</cfif>

The text file is line by line and looks like this:

"25003"      09:29      09:29      "8/10/2004"      3
"25003"      09:39      10:19      "8/10/2004"      4
"25003"      11:11      12:02      "8/10/2004"      1
"25003"      12:17      14:35      "8/10/2004"      2

This then gets imported into an Access dbase which then looks like this:

Record     Extension      LoginTime      LogoutTime      Date      ReasonCode
1              25003      9:29 AM      9:29 AM                8/10/2004      3
2              25003      9:39 AM      10:19 AM                8/10/2004      4
3              25003      11:11 AM      12:02 PM                8/10/2004      1
4              25003      12:17 PM      2:35 PM                8/10/2004      2

If the reason code is a 9, that means it was the end of their shift and they go home.

And this is the way the table is setup:

Field Name          Data Type
Extension            Text
LoginTime           Date/Time
LogoutTime         Date/Time
Date                   Date/Time
ReasonCode        Text

Ok, so I would write a function.

<cffunction name="getTimeDiff">
  <cfargument name="currentrecordid">
  <cfargument name="currentlogoutTime">

  <cfquery name ="nextrecord">
   select .... from ...
    where record = #currentrecordid + 1#
  </cfquery>

  Calculate difference: arguments.currentLogOutTime - nextrecord.logintime
  ... you may have to do a timeFormat too...

  <cfreturn time>
</cffunction>

I would call your record similar to this now ...

<cfoutput query="yourquery">
#employee# - #logintime# - #logouttime# - #reason# - <cfif reason IS NOT 9>#getTimeDiff(recordid,logouttime)#</cfif>
</cfoutput>

My query 'agtlogdata' is located at the top of the page and this is the way my table to display the results in cfm is:

<TABLE cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0">
     <TR bgcolor="333333" class="tinysilver">
          <TD bgcolor="FFFFFF"></td>
          <TD align="center"><b>Login Time</b></TD>
          <TD align="center"><b>Logout Time</b></TD>
          <TD align="center"><b>Logout Date</b></TD>
          <TD align="center"><b>Logout Reason</b></TD>
          <TD align="center"><b>Logout Duration</b></TD>                                    
     </TR>
<CFOUTPUT query="agtlogdata">
<CFIF Date EQ #LTrim(CreateODBCDate(dateformat(now(),'m/d/yyyy')))# OR Date IS "">
     <TR class="tiny">
          <TD></TD>
          <TD align="center">#TimeFormat(logintime, "hh:mm tt")#</TD>
          <TD align="center">#TimeFormat(logouttime, "hh:mm tt")#</TD>                              
          <TD align="center">#DateFormat(date, 'm/d')#</TD>
          <TD align="center">#reasoncodename#</TD>                        
          <TD align="center"><cfif reason IS NOT 9>#getTimeDiff(recordid,logouttime)#</cfif></TD>
     </TR>
<CFELSE>
</CFIF>
</CFOUTPUT>
</TABLE>

Where would I put the function and argument and new query statements?

It's telling me:

Variable RECORDID is undefined.

Record ID was my generic name for the unique id associated with each record.

The cffunction statement can go anywhere on the page.  It may be easier to follow if it is included at the top of your page.

This is what I have:

<TABLE cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0">
     <TR bgcolor="333333" class="tinysilver">
          <TD bgcolor="FFFFFF"></td>
          <TD align="center"><b>Login Time</b></TD>
          <TD align="center"><b>Logout Time</b></TD>
          <TD align="center"><b>Logout Date</b></TD>
          <TD align="center"><b>Logout Reason</b></TD>
          <TD align="center"><b>Logout Duration</b></TD>
     </TR>
<cffunction name="getTimeDiff">
  <cfargument name="currentrecordid">
  <cfargument name="currentlogoutTime">
  <cfquery datasource="harprod" name="nextrecord">
          SELECT *
          FROM qsel_CMSLogData_Info
          WHERE record = #currentrecordid + 1#
  </cfquery>
  arguments.currentLogOutTime - nextrecord.logintime
  <cfreturn time>
</cffunction>
<CFOUTPUT query="agtlogdata">
<CFIF Date EQ #LTrim(CreateODBCDate(dateformat(now(),'m/d/yyyy')))# OR Date IS "">
     <TR class="tiny">
          <TD></TD>
          <TD align="center">#TimeFormat(logintime, "hh:mm tt")#</TD>
          <TD align="center">#TimeFormat(logouttime, "hh:mm tt")#</TD>
          <TD align="center">#DateFormat(date, 'm/d')#</TD>
          <TD align="center">#reasoncodename#</TD>
          <TD align="center"><cfif reasoncode IS NOT 9>#getTimeDiff(record,logouttime)#</cfif>
          </TD>                                          
     </TR>
<CFELSE>
</CFIF>
</CFOUTPUT>
</TABLE>

And I'm getting this error now:

Variable time is undefined.

Now what am I doing wrong?

Time has not been set to anything.  I think you want:

<cfset time = arguments.currentLogOutTime - nextrecord.logintime>
  <cfreturn time>

I am not sure if that will give you the proper value, or if you will have to do a DateDifference on the two times.  Also, a TimeFormat(time,'mask') may be needed to put your variable 'time' into the correct format.

This is what I did...

  <cfset time = #DateDiff("N",arguments.currentLogOutTime,nextrecord.logintime)#>
  <cfreturn #timeformat(time, "h:m")#>

and this is what I get now:

The system has attempted to use an undefined value, which usually indicates a programming error, either in your code or some system code.
Null Pointers are another name for undefined values.

And if I let it like this:

  <cfset time = arguments.currentLogOutTime - nextrecord.logintime>
  <cfreturn #timeformat(time, "h:m")#>

I get:

The value "" cannot be converted to a number

time is a reserved word.  Additionally you do not need # inside a cfreturn statement

I changed the time to agtlogtimeout and removed the # inside the cfreturn statement and it still states the value "" cannot be converted to a number...

DId you try printing arguments.currentLogOUtTime and nextrecord.logintime before the cfset or the return?


What do you get

Anyone else before I tell them this can't be done???

What did you get when printing these variables to the screen ?

I actually forgot and gave up on it because it wasn't working and didnt' have time to mess with it.  I provided points to those who put work into helping.  Thank you and my apologies for not closing out the question...