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Calculate date difference into Month and Days

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Posted on by Venedict 1,243

Hi,

I would like to display 2 dates differences into month and days, e.g. 2 month 15 days. It seem standard calculated field is unable to achieve this, as the diffindays is calculate the total day in difference between the 2 dates.

In excel, we can use DATEDIF(A1,B1,"M") & "month ," &DATEDIF(A1,B1,"MD") & "days" it would return the desire result. How to achieve this ?

Thanks.

Regards,
Teh

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    Emily Zhang Microsoft Employee on at

    I guess there's no oob function to achieve this. But you can write your own plugin.

    1. Register the plugin on record creation and update.

    2. Retrieve these 2 datetime attributes in plugin.

    3. Define 2 DateTime variable in the plugin, set datetime equals to attributes datetime.

    4. Compare month, days difference referring below document.

    docs.microsoft.com/.../system.datetime.month

    5. Pass the comparing difference back to CRM.

    But there's one issue with displaying 2 dates differences into month and days. For example: date1 is Jan 15th, date2 is March 3. If we compare date difference  into month and days, it will be come 2 month -12 days.

    If  you don't want negative number, then you need to make assumption, say every month is 30 days.

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