[Remind-Fans] Countdown message that only includes weekdays
Dianne Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Jan 4 11:24:11 EST 2017
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 12:10:04 -0400
Scott Hatcher <scott.v.hatcher at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, for instance, if we have a deadline of 2017-01-01, and we call
> the new substitution "%B", the reminder would look like:
> REM 2017-01-01 +45 MSG Deadline: ABC report due in %B working days
Oh, that's a piece of cake.
REM 2017-01-01 +45 MSG Deadline in [nonomitted(today(), $T, "Sat", "Sun")] workdays
You can tidy it up a little with:
FSET workdays(x) nonomitted(x, $T, "Sat", "Sun")
...
REM 2017-01-01 +45 MSG Deadline in [workdays(today())] [plural(workdays(today()), "workday")]
Regards,
Dianne.
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