weekday() Function

Function

weekday( date, return_type )

Returns the day of the week of the specified date.

Parameters

Keyword	Type	Description
date	Date	The date that the day of the week will be calculated from
return_type	Integer	Controls how the days of the week are numbered with 1 correlating 1-7 with Sunday-Saturday, 2 correlating 1-7 with Monday-Sunday, and 3 correlating 0-6 with Monday-Sunday.

Returns

Integer

Usage considerations

The default value of return_type is 1.

Examples

weekday(date(2011,12,13)) returns 3

Feature compatibility

The table below lists this function's compatibility with various features in Appian.

Feature	Compatibility	Note
Portals	Compatible
Offline Mobile	Compatible
Sync-Time Custom Record Fields	Compatible	Can be used to create a custom record field that only evaluates at sync time.
Real-Time Custom Record Fields	Incompatible	Custom record fields that evaluate in real time must be configured using one or more Custom Field functions.
Process Reports	Compatible
Process Events	Compatible
Process Autoscaling	Compatible

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