Date combined in a cell

Some fabulous person helped me previously with putting 2 dates together in one cell on a sheet summary.

I am now trying to do the same thing within my sheet. There are details in child rows I dont necessarily want to share with client, so Ive moved those items to a row Ive designated "project level" to move all client facing updates there.

One item is a timeframe listed in the project plan Id like to populate in a cell on only the "project level" row

=(LEFT[Start Date]108,5) + "-" + LEFT(Due Date108,5

How do I now remove the time and just have the dates

Answers

  • Mark.poole
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    =dateonly([Start Date]108) +”-“+dateonly[Due Date]108)

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  • AmandaB23
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    Hi , I appreciate the help but it is not working :( getting "UNPARSEABLE"

  • Mark.poole
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    edited 05/21/24

    @AmandaB23

    I am sorry. There was an error in the formula I posted. So if you copied and pasted it directly It would not have worked. In this one i corrected the error. I forgot to close off the second dateonly() function.

    =dateonly([Start Date]108) +”-“+dateonly([Due Date]108)

    Dateonly function also only works on system columns. "This Includes Start and end dates in project forms".So if your not pointed it to a system column then it wont work either. What type of Column are you pulling the dates from? IF it just has a date and not a time stamp. That would change the formula.

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  • Mark.poole
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    This is perplexing me. The example image I showed it worked with no issues. I aa willing to delve deeper into this if you would like to contact me on teams.

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  • AmandaB23
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    @Mark.poole I would love to connect , I have a presentation at 4 Id love to get this fixed ahead of. How can I reach you?

  • Mark.poole
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    @AmandaB23 You can reach me on teams if you use it. Mark.poole@whirlwindsteel.com.

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