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Calculating Age based on DOB

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Posted on by Shane Brown

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I created a Calculated field using Diffindays to calculate Age based on Today and dob field.

'DiffInDays(cat_dateofbirth, Now()) / 365'

The issue I have it does not take into consideration leap years. Is there anything I could add to the formula to make this work?

Or any code that does the job?

Thanks

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Aric Levin - MVP 30,190 Moderator on at

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Not sure if you are trying to achieve this in JavaScript or C#, but you can use the following logic:

var oldDate =new Date(2000, 0, 1); //Month is 0-11 in JavaScript

today=new Date();

//Get 1 day in milliseconds

var one_day=1000*60*60*24

//Calculate difference btw the two dates, and convert to days

var todayDays = Math.ceil((today.getTime()-millennium.getTime())/(one_day));

See following article for more info, but there are plenty more:

www.javascriptkit.com/.../datedifference.shtml

In C# it's much easier:

int totalDays = EndDate.Date.Subtract(DateTime.Now.Date).Days;

or

int totalDays = DateTime.Now.Subtract(EndDate.Date).Days;

Hope this helps.

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ashlega 34,477 on at

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Hi Shane,

why don't you use DiffinYears instead of DiffinDays?

Or are you trying to get a decimal number for the age (as in 10.5, 40.73)?

If that's the case, you might probably try:

DiffinYears(cat_dateofbirth, NOW()) +DiffinDays(ADDYEARS(cat_dateofbirth, DiffinYears(cat_dateofbirth, NOW())), NOW()) / 365

In other words, first get diff in years.. then add the portion of the year which is left after that

There could still be a bit of difference, but it'would only be there if the last year was a leap year

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CSF90 on at

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This is the classic example of a solution that sounds like it should be simple but is actually really complex. You'll need a JavaScript function for it to be accurate - there is no way calculated fields or business rules will be able to work it out for you.

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Shane Brown 190 on at

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Agreed doesn’t look like it is possible with OOB functionality.

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Vipin J 1,603 on at

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The business rule where seems to be not working ang giving an error - You can't use Now(), which is of type dateTime, with the current function.

So i wrote a JavaScript to support my calculation of Age. Click Here

vjcity.blogspot.com/.../how-to-calculate-age-in-dynamic-365-crm.html

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Namrata11 77 on at

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Hi,

I have calculated age using OOB Calculated field.

https://namratapani.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/oob-age-calculation-in-crm/

Please check this once. Worked for me :)

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Bruna Teixeira 5 on at

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Hi Namrata,

I've taken a look at your suggestion and I think the problem is to create a new DOB field using User Local behavior. It could be a problem for users in different time zones as the date can change.

I agree with the guys, I think there is no OOB way to solve this.

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TomSmelser 1,570 on at

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This worked for me. Thank you.

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Namrata11 77 on at

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You can use Date only field

It is about Date of birth, we can consider as date only field

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Kishore P 45 on at

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Hi ,

Try these:

var DOB =Xrm.Page.getAttribute("DOB").getValue();

var today = new Date();

var birthDate = new Date(DOB);

var age = today.getFullYear() - birthDate.getFullYear();

var m = today.getMonth() - birthDate.getMonth();

if (m < 0 || (m === 0 && today.getDate() < birthDate.getDate())) {

age = age - 1;

}

Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_Age").setValue(age);

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