VSys One: Volunteer Management Software

Calculated Field Operations

In the following example, a date field has two operations performed on it:

The date is replaced by the quarter of that date, e.g. "January 14, 2008" becomes "Q1".
Text is added to the beginning of the field, e.g. "Q1" becoming "Quarter: Q1".

Any number of operations can be added here, and they're performed sequentially - one after the other - so the second operation gets the result of the first to work on.
Calculated fields operation window showing adding the letter Q to the beginiing on the field

Operation	Action/Example
`Add text to the end, Add text to the beginning`	Puts your Text to add value at the beginning or end of the current value.
`Convert to upper-case`	"`Smith, Dale`" becomes "`SMITH, DALE`"
`Convert to lower-case`	"`Smith, Dale`" becomes "`smith, dale`"
`Search & replace`	Recursive replacement of text values. Does not allow the replacement value to contain the source value.
`Limit length of the text`	If the text is longer than the number of characters you specify, it will be chopped off at the length you designate here.
`Add years to a date`	For all "`Add XXX to a date`", if the date is blank, no action is taken.
`Add months to a date, Add weeks to a date, Add days to a date`	Adds the value you select to the existing date field. Negative values are valid here. A date field which is blank will not be changed.
`Day of week`	e.g. "`1`"
`Day of week name`	e.g. "`Monday`"
`Day of week name (short)`	e.g. "`Mon`"
`Week of year, Month of year, Year portion of date, Fiscal month of year, Fiscal year of date`
`Quarter of year`	"`January 14, 2008`" becomes "`Q1`"
`Fiscal quarter of year`	For a fiscal year starting in April, "`January 14, 2008`" becomes "`Q4`"
`Add/subtract number, Multiply, Divide`
`Round a number`	`14.5678`, `2` becomes `14.57` `143.56`, `-1` becomes `140`.
`Truncate a number`	`14.5678`, `2` becomes `14.56` `143.56`, `-1` becomes `140`.
`Choose text based on the field being TRUE or FALSE`	All three of these take a wide view of "`True`" and "`False`": "`1`", "`T`", and "`Y`" are `TRUE`, "`0`", "`N`" and "`F`" are `FALSE`.
`Choose a number based on the field being TRUE or FALSE, Choose a date based on the field being TRUE or FALSE`
`Date portion of a date/time value`	"`12/17/2011 11:47 AM`" becomes "`12/17/2011`"
`Time portion of a date/time value`	"`12/17/2011 11:47 AM`" becomes "`11:47 AM`"
`Convert to mixed case`	"`JOHN DOE`" becomes "`John Doe`"
`First day of month`	"`03/07/2011`" becomes "`03/01/2011`"
`First day of year`	"`03/07/2011`" becomes "`01/01/2011`"
`Month of year with name`	"`03/07/2011`" becomes "`03 - March`"
`Fiscal month of year with name`	"`03/07/2011`" becomes "`06 - March`" when the fiscal year starts on October 1.
`Year portion of date`	"`03/07/2011`" becomes "`2011`"