How to create a form to input the start and end dates for a project, and automatically calculate the duration in business days, considering weekends and holidays, to effectively plan project timelines?
Add 2 date fields in your form builder, one to input project start date and another to input project end date.
- To restrict the selection of weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) in both the Date fields, unselect Saturday and Sunday in the Allowed Days of Week dropdown.
- To exclude specific busy dates or holiday dates from the calendar of a Date field throughout the year, you can configure a Global Holiday List. Check out the steps to create a Global Holiday List. Once you create a list, associate the holiday list with your form. Check out the steps for associating a global holiday list with your form.
- To calculate the number of business days within the project timeline, add a Formula field from the Advanced Fields to your form and use the AllowedDaysCount function as shown.
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