Last day of previous month

[tcarvalho]

Is there a variable combination that can have Robotask populate the last date of a previous month? So for example when running a report in the end date for the date field I need to populate 06/30/2020 as that was the final day of the previous month.

[kunkel321]

Is there a variable combination that can have Robotask populate the last date of a previous month? So for example when running a report in the end date for the date field I need to populate 06/30/2020 as that was the final day of the previous month.

I'm somewhat new to Robotask... But I'll bet you could get today's date as format "dd" then subtract "dd+1" from the current date. For example today is July 14th, so that would be "14." Add one is 15. So then use the Global Variable called {DateIncDays(-7)} which appears to be "current date +/- number of days. Today minus 15 should be June 30.

Maybe?

EDIT: Actually, As I look at a calendar... Maybe you wouldn't need to add +1. Today (14th) minus 14 would be one day before July 1st. Hence June 30th.

[Oleg]

Maybe you wouldn't need to add +1. Today (14th) minus 14 would be one day before July 1st. Hence June 30th.

Yes, of course.
Use the expression {DateIncDays(-{Day})}

Also look at the small example

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msg1=STRING|"{DateIncDays(-{day})}"
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Save the text of the task to a file and use menu Task->Import to import the task into RoboTask.

[kunkel321]

Wow -- only one step needed in the task. Pretty cool.

[tcarvalho]

Use the expression {DateIncDays(-{Day})}

Thank you Oleg, but I forgot one of the reports is actually 2 months behind, but again needs to be the last day of that month. Is that also possible with this expression?

[kunkel321]

The only way I can imagine this working (for month before last), is to use a loop.

Start with a date that is "today minus 60 days." Then increment it forward one day at a time. With each loop save the currently evaluated date (formatted as "dd") to a variable, and the day after the currently evaluated day as another variable. When "Var_day_after" is less than "var_currently_evaluated" then break from the loop--you are at the end of the month.