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Which is the right formula to calculate the age in a form used for candidates selection?
In the example, they have to insert their DOB and in another space I would like to have the result of their age. I have tried different formulas, like the difference between DOB and today date, but without success.
I am a developer for Cognito Forms.
Since February 2015 the following functionality has been made available:
In this example, I am setting the range on the Start Date field to =DateTime.Today. It could have also been =DateTime.Today.AddDays(1) to be tomorrow or later. Calculations are very robust and should cover most scenarios you can dream up, but you can also just enter literal dates.
I then set the range on the End Date to be at least three days after the Start Date, but no more than seven days. Here is the calculation for the End Date minimum:
And this is how the Start Date appears on the form, with the days before today disabled:
And similarly for the End Date, with both minimum and maximum date restrictions based on the Start Date.
The date range for the End Date automatically updates based on changes to the Start Date, so if an End Date is specified and the Start Date is later changed, validation will catch this if the user does not fix it first.
Please note that range validation applies to Date, Number and Currency fields, not just the dates included in this example.
I am a developer for Cognito Forms.
You are very close to getting the calculation to work, AddDays takes an integer value and the value and what you were generating is a decimal value. You will need to add a little extra code to your Due Date calculation to get it running correctly.
=DateTime.Today.AddDays(Int32(CalculatedTime))
One other change I would make to your calculation in the CalculatedTime field would be to remove the quotation marks (") from around the numebrs, so your calculation looks like this:
=ProjectType = "Flyer: Up to 30 Products" ? 7 : ProjectType = "Flyer: Up to 60 Products" ? 12 : ProjectType = "Flyer: 60+ Products" ? 18 : 7
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I am a developer for Cognito Forms
You can do this with the use of two fields. The first field is a Date filed with the label of "Birth Date". This will be the title I use in the calculation in our next field.
The next field we need to add is a Calculation field. You can title this anything you need to and for this example I used "Age" we are then going to use the fallowing calculation in the calculation field.
This will allow a user to input their birth date into the Date field and the users age will be placed as a number onto the form in the Age field.