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Justin Doh How to display today's date in SOQL
I am new to SOQL.
I am trying to write a simple query where it basically says "SELECT aDate from TableA where aDate is less than today's date"
The data field for aDate is TEXT(10), and it displays as 2017-02-28.
I googled around, but somehow, it would not retrieve the output as I expected.
I found something like using TODAY, TODAY(), SYSTEM.TODAY() etc.
If I do this this works.
SELECT aDate from TableA where aDate < '2017-02-28'
What is expression that says today's date in the text format?
Thanks in advance.
I am trying to write a simple query where it basically says "SELECT aDate from TableA where aDate is less than today's date"
The data field for aDate is TEXT(10), and it displays as 2017-02-28.
I googled around, but somehow, it would not retrieve the output as I expected.
I found something like using TODAY, TODAY(), SYSTEM.TODAY() etc.
If I do this this works.
SELECT aDate from TableA where aDate < '2017-02-28'
What is expression that says today's date in the text format?
Thanks in advance.
I think this is the only solution because in the Text Field < and > wont work, if you change the Text to Date or DateTime it will work
Thanks
Vinuthh S
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You don't need a SOQL per se. If you are on a VF page and trying to retrieve and show Todays date you can use something lile this, it will be in a
Today's date: {!YEAR() +'-'+MONTH()+'-'+DAY()}
But if you still want it in a SOQL query, I suggest changing the aDate field to that of Date type so that you could use
Select Id, Name, aDate from TableA where aDate<TODAY
Please let me know for anymore queries. Else, please can you mark this as the solution. Thanks!
You have to change the aDate field type to Date or DateTime Type, because 2017-02-28 is considered as Text not as Date.Change the field type to Date and use the Same query it will work.
Thanks
Vinuthh S
Is there any other solution beside changing the data type from TEXT(10) to DateTime type?
I think this is the only solution because in the Text Field < and > wont work, if you change the Text to Date or DateTime it will work
Thanks
Vinuthh S