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Find date record in calendar table based on Start Date and # of Days to add

I have a calendar table with calendar.calendardays (every day of the year), calendar.Weekdays (Monday - Sunday) and calendar.OfficeWorkdays (states whether it is a workday, holiday, weekend or closure).

I have a delphi form where user inputs the Start Date and # of Days in Mfg. What I would like to happen on EditValueChange is to calculate the End Date based on (Start Date + # of Days in Mfg) BUT it should only add days that are marked as 'Workday' in the Calendar.OfficeWorkdays field.

For example, start date on my test record is 11/15/11. When I enter 2, the result should be 11/16/11 BECAUSE the Start Date is INCLUDED in the 2 days. Another example with the same start date of 11/15 and user enters in 5, resulting date should be 11/21/11. 15th is day 1, 16th is day 2, 17th is day 3, 18th is day 4, SKIPS 19th and 20th because they are in Calendar.OfficeWorkdays as 'Weekend' and the 21st is the next 'Workday' and that is day 5.

Below code is my attempt... but as soon as I hit a non-Workday, I get incorrect results. What I tried to do is get the count of non-Workdays, get the start date and get the # of days to add, then ADD that all together but what happens is I end up on a Sunday. I also have a CalendarView I was going to test out and it is simply the Calendar table but filtering only for OfficeWorkdays = 'Workday'.

Thank you for your help!

procedure TfrmMfgScheduleForm.edMfgDaysPropertiesEditValueChanged(
  Sender: TObject);
var sMfgStart, sDays, sSql, sDaysToAdd, sMfgComplete : String;  dMfgStart, dDays, dMfgComplete, dDaysToAdd :TDateTime;
        fDayToAdd : Variant;
begin
  inherited;

  dMfgStart     := StrToDate(edMfgStart.Text);
//  dMfgComplete  := StrToDate(edMfgTarget.Text);
  fDayToAdd     := StrToFloat(edMfgDays.Text);
//  dDays         := StrToDate(DateToStr(dMfgStart + StrToFloat(edMfgDays.Text)));
  dDays         := dMfgStart + fDayToAdd;

  //how many non-workdays are there between start of mfg plus days to add?
  with dmMfgSchedule.qrySearch do begin
        Close;
        sql.Clear;
//        sql.Add('SELECT CalendarDays FROM CalendarView WHERE CalendarDays = ('''+DateToStr(dDays)+''') ');
        sql.Add('SELECT COUNT(ID) AS Expr1 FROM Calendar ');
        sql.Add('WHERE (CalendarDays BETWEEN '''+DateToStr(dMfgStart)+''' AND '''+DateToStr(dDays)+''') ');
        sql.Add('AND OfficeWorkDays <> ''Workday'' ');
        Open;
        end;
        sDaysToAdd      := dmMfgSchedule.qrySearch.FieldValues['CalendarDays'];
        sMfgComplete    := DateToStr( (fDayToAdd - 1) + (dMfgStart) + (StrToFloat(sDaysToAdd)) );

  //Calculate Mfg Start plus Days in Mfg
  sSql := ' UPDATE PCJobData SET Mfg_Complete = '''+DateToStr(dMfgComplete)+''' ';
  sSql := sSql + ' WHERE ID = '''+sJobID+''' ' ;
  dmMfgSchedule.ADOCommand1.CommandText:= sSql;
  dmMfgSchedule.ADOCommand1.Execute;

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Norm-al

Asked: 2011-09-27

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Ferruccio AccalaiSenior developer, analyst and customer assistance Commented: 2011-09-27

IMHO you should change your query using TOP fDayToAdd to extract just the top desidered records starting from a cartain date

something like

sql.Add('SELECT TOP '+StrToFloat(edMfgDays.Text)+' ID FROM Calendar ');
sql.Add('WHERE (CalendarDays >= '''+DateToStr(dMfgStart)+''') ');
sql.Add('AND OfficeWorkDays <> ''Workday'' ');

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Norm-alNetwork EngineerAuthor Commented: 2011-09-27

SELECT TOP (5) CalendarDays
FROM Calendar
WHERE (CalendarDays >= '11/15/11') AND (OfficeWorkdays <> 'Workday')

Using my example of Start Date = 11/15/11 and Days in Mfg = 5, the resulting date SHOULD be 11/21/11.

The result of the above query returns the top 5 records that are NOT workdays... I am unsure how to apply it to retrieve the result I am looking for... ??

Thanks!

Norm-alNetwork EngineerAuthor Commented: 2011-09-27

I changed the query to:

SELECT TOP (5) CalendarDays
FROM Calendar
WHERE (CalendarDays >= '11/15/11') AND (OfficeWorkdays <> 'Workday')

and the result shows the last record as THE DATE I am looking for... how do I take the LAST record from the resulting dataset?

Instead of TOP(5) is there a way to get LAST(1) of the TOP(5) or something like that?

Norm-alNetwork EngineerAuthor Commented: 2011-09-27

SELECT MAX(CalendarDays) AS CalendarDays
FROM (SELECT TOP (5) CalendarDays
FROM Calendar
WHERE (CalendarDays >= '11/15/11') AND (OfficeWorkdays = 'Workday')) AS Calendar_1

This gives me the MAX Result from my TOP select! Thanks for your assistance!

Norm-alNetwork EngineerAuthor Commented: 2011-09-27

I found the answer during my testing.

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Ferruccio AccalaiSenior developer, analyst and customer assistance Commented: 2011-09-27

Back to my office now.

I didn't know the data type so I've suggested to use Top to get the first matching records.
Now I understand exactly what was the need and yes, Top combined with Max do the trick
Glad to have helped you.

Just one thing: you can close the q. by yourself accepting and grading what you prefere instead of asking for a closing. Same result, but a little bit time and job saved by moderators ;-)

Norm-alNetwork EngineerAuthor Commented: 2011-09-28

Thanks Ferrucio! Check out my other question if you have time... similar to this one...

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Pascal/Delphi/Q_27346575.html

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