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NthWeekday_CurrentMonth ( theweekday ; occurrence )

Returns the Nth Weekday of the Current Month

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  Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

// Function: NthWeekday_CurrentMonth ( theweekday ; occurrence ) // Parameter: theweekday (1=Sun, 2=Mon, 3=Tue, 4=Wed, 5=Thu, 6=Fri, 7=Sat) // Parameter: occurrence (which occurrence in the month -- 1 to 4 only) // Returns the Nth Weekday of the Current Month // Example: 2nd Tuesday of August, 2016 // NthWeekday_CurrentMonth ( 3 ; 2 ) = 08/09/2016 // Example: 4th Friday of August, 2016 // NthWeekday_CurrentMonth ( 6 ; 4 ) = 08/26/2016 Let ( [ m = Month ( Get ( CurrentDate ) ) ; y = Year ( Get ( CurrentDate ) ) ; d = Mod ( theweekday - DayOfWeek ( Date ( m ; 1 ; y ) ) + 7 ; 7 ) + 1 ; o = Case ( occurrence = 1 ; 0 ; occurrence = 2 ; 7 ; occurrence = 3 ; 14 ; occurrence = 4 ; 21 ; "1 to 4 only" ) ] ; Date ( m ; d ; y ) + o ) Click to copy

I use this in a Bill Paying App to show the Social Security deposit day for the current month. It could be used for any recurring monthly event. I have used a variant of the function in an app to return the date for any day, given a Month, Year and Occurrence. Another variant creates a PDF of the year's recurring event for printing schedules.

 

Comments

		M, FL Dec 29, 2017
Can you please explain this and the steps better... do I copy and paste this into the calculation field as is? When I do I get an error (the specified field "theweekday" can not be found). I don't understand the format of the input or where to create and how to pass that info :-( Still new and all this... seems so complex just to get a list of 2nd fridays in a given year :-(

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