Description

The CalendarReferenceGen Generator adds or subtracts a specified amount of time from a referenced calendar generator and displays the resulting date

Parameters

The following parameters may be configured for the CalendarReferenceGen Generator. Items with an asterisk* are required.   

• reference* – Defines the Attribute to reference. The value of the referenced Attribute should be a date string.
  
  
• jumpBy – Defines the measure of distance to jump:
  • Year
  • Month
  • Day
  • Hour
  • Minute
  • Second
  • Millisecond
    
    
• jumpAmount* - Defines how far positive or negative a measure to jump.
  
  
• format* - Defines the format of the date. The format should be the format of the date string being referenced. Refer to this link for the different date and time format: https://genrocket.freshdesk.com/solution/articles/19000087967.
  
  

Example 1

In this example, the referenced calendar date (ref_calendar_dt) must be 15 days after ref_calendar_date. The parameters would be configured as below:

• reference = #{self.gen1}
• jumpBy = Day
• jumpAmount =15
• format = yyyy-MM-dd

This example includes 2 linked Generators: FlexibleDateRangeGen and CalendarReferenceGen. The FlexibleDateRangeGen is referenced by the reference Parameter.

The FlexibleDateRangeGen Generator configuration is shown below: 

Note: To learn more about linking Generators, please see the following knowledge base section: Linked Generators.

Sample Output

As shown in the sample output below, each date is 15 days later than the referenced calendar date: