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Advance filter on dates - (LessThanUtcNow()) but not blank

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Posted on by jwell22

Hello,

I am trying to apply an advance filter on confirmed receipt date for open purchase orders.

I want to apply both (LessThanUtcNow()) and is not blank. Otherwise, the (LessThanUtcNow()) filter alone will display blank values, which I do not want.

I have tried a few without success:

>01011900
!""

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance!

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Adis 5,767 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Advance filter on dates - (LessThanUtcNow()) but not blank

Hi,

Right from the gut I would try to apply the BETWEEN syntax => 01.01.1900..(LessThanUtcNow())

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I would also check:

-if the two values work separately, ie. filter by no blanks OR (LessThanUtcNow()). Instead of using !"" or >01011900, try using a date before the first purchase order ever created in the system.

-Instead of (LessThanUtcNow()), try using a date. Maybe the function works as a stand alone function but not in combination.

Kind regards, Adis

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Laurens vd Tang 3,658 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Good day,

Could you try it with (LessThanUtcNow()) , !""

Best regards,

Laurens van der Tang

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Mohamed Amine Mahmoudi 26,356 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @jwell22,

You need to use >T instead of (LessThanUtcNow()) because it also contains null values

Best regards,

Mohamed Amine MAHMOUDI

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Waed Ayyad 8,973 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi,

Can you tell me what is the data that you want to filter? for example, do you want to return records that have confirm receipt date > 1/1/1900?

Thanks,

Waed Ayyad

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jwell22 83 on at

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Advance filter on dates - (LessThanUtcNow()) but not blank

Thanks all for your responses so far, but unfortunately none of the suggestions work.

I'm still getting blank values come through.

The data I'm trying to filter is on lines where the confirmed receipt date is:

A date in the past (not including today)

Not blank

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Waed Ayyad 8,973 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi,

To be clear do you want to get all records < today () and not blank?

Thanks,

Waed Ayyad

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jwell22 83 on at

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Advance filter on dates - (LessThanUtcNow()) but not blank

That's right. So I want to see POs which are late.

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Martin Dráb 236,798 Most Valuable Professional on at

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The problem with yours, lvdtang's and Mohamed's approaches is that they're combining the ranges with OR operator, not AND.

A good approach may be creating a custom query range util method, similar to lessThanUtcNow(), but excluding empty values.

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Mohamed Amine Mahmoudi 26,356 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @jwell22,

the first solution works very well for me.

if not, I suggest this solution: put 1901 instead of 1900.

Best regards,

Mohamed Amine MAHMOUDI

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jwell22 83 on at

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Advance filter on dates - (LessThanUtcNow()) but not blank

This one is almost perfect, except I don't want to filter on today's date (T), instead I want yesterday.

The idea being that I capture POs that are "late"

I have tried (Day(-1)) but this does not work either.

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