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Calculating the Difference

between Created Date and

Changed Date in BW/BI Reports

Applies to:

SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (Formerly BI), Will also work on SAP BI 3.5. For more information, visit the EDW homepage.

Summary

This article describes how to Calculate the Difference between Created date and Changed date in BW or BI Reports.

Author: Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru

Company: ITC Infotech India Ltd. (Bangalore/INDIA)

Created on: 23 June 2011

Author Bio

Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru is a SAP BI Lead Consultant currently working with ITC Infotech India Ltd (Bangalore/INDIA). He has got rich experience and worked on various BW/BI Implementation/Support Projects and he is the author for various Articles and Blogs (SAP-BW/BI) in

SAP Community Network.

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Calculating the Difference between Created Date and Changed Date in BW/BI Reports


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Table of Contents

Introduction / Requirement: ................................................................................................................................ 3

How to Achieve: .............................................................................................................................................. 3

Creating Variable on Created Date: ................................................................................................................ 3

All Tabs of the Variable: .................................................................................................................................. 7

Creating Variable on Changed Date: .............................................................................................................. 9

Creating Formulas with both Variables in report: .......................................................................................... 13

Save and Execute the report: ....................................................................................................................... 14

Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 15

Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 17



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Introduction / Requirement:

This article describes how to Calculate the Difference between Created date and Changed date in BW or BI Reports, this is useful whenever you want to find out the delay in days between Created and Changed dates.

How to Achieve:

Using Formula Variables with replacement path in BEx reports we can achieve it. Create one formula variable with replacement path on Created Date Character and another formula variable with replacement path on Changed Date, then create a formula and just do simple subtraction in report.

Creating Variable on Created Date:

This formula is just Dummy formula to create a formula variable we need to create a formula first then in that we can create a formula variable, that is the reason I’m creating the formula, and after creating the both formula variables we will edit the same formula and then create actual calculations in that formula.



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Select the Edit option and then follow the below steps.



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In General tab, give Technical name, Type of Variable is by default Formula, Processing By you must select Replacement Path finally you need to select the Reference Characteristic, i.e. from which Field you are replacing the value into this Variable, in our case Create Date.

In Currency/Unit tab, select Dimensions is Date, because we are doing Date calculations.



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All Tabs of the Variable:

See all the below screen, which will give the complete properties of the Variable, it is easy for you to create your self.



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Creating Variable on Changed Date:

Follow all the above steps i.e. similar to Created Date Variable. So I’m giving final screen of Changed Date Variable.

You just see the below screens, you can get the variable details



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See the both variables in below Screen.

We will create a formula and in that we will subtract Changed Date with Created Date then we will get difference between two Dates.



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Creating Formulas with both Variables in report:

We are created a Formula in report and then open in Edit mode and create the formula like below.



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Save and Execute the report:

See the above result; it calculated the correct number of day’s difference between Changed and Crated Dates.



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