DayName

Description

Gets the day of the week in a date value and returns the weekday’s name.

Syntax

DayName ( date )

Argument

Description

date

The date for which you want the name of the day

Returns

String. Returns a string whose value is the name of the weekday (Sunday, Monday, and so on) for date.

Usage

DayName returns a name in the language of the deployment files available on the machine where the application is run. If you have installed localized deployment files in the development environment or on a user’s machine, then on that machine the name returned by DayName will be in the language of the localized files.

Examples

Example 1

This expression for a computed field returns Okay if the day in date_signed is not Sunday:

If(DayName(date_signed) <> "Sunday", "Okay", "Invalid Date")

Example 2

To pass this validation rule, the day in date_signed must not be Sunday:

DayName(date_signed) <> "Sunday"

See also