Hello lovely experts. I’ve trawled through the amazing templates but can’t quite find something I’m looking for, which probably means it doesn’t exist. I have a home inventory database and I’d like to record the expiry date for guarantees by adding a duration (eg 1, 2 or 5 years etc) to a guarantee registered field (date) and ideally outputting “expired” or the expiry date. Is this a requirement too far?
You can use the calculation field for that. Have a look at the dateadd() and now() functions. Then you can check if this expiry date is before the current date using the if() function and return a valid or expired string.
Keep in mind that calculation field values are only regenerated when a field they reference within a record changes. You need to explicitly refresh the record or use the “refresh record list” option to refresh all records in a form. This makes it non-trivial to do a field that changes to “expired” once a certain date hits.
A different approach is to do the date field as suggested by Daniel above and then use a saved search to look for “expired” records after the current date. Use the filter icon next to start a new saved search and after selecting your date field use the “is in the period” selector and then “today or after”.
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