[rt-users] Dynamic/Relative Date Searching

[Russell Mosemann]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Roland, Ryan M wrote:

> We have the need to create a search that uses relative dates.  Say I
> want a search that will show me all work completed in the last
> month.  If I select 'Resolved'->'After' I then have to manually enter
> a date from a month ago in order to get that result.

Created After "1 month ago"

The routines for the user interface use Time::ParseDate to figure out what
you are using for a date.  Take a look at the man page for a long list of
absolute and relative formats.  It's pretty clever.

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Russell Mosemann, Ph.D. * Computing Services * Concordia University, Nebraska
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