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Saved Search results - SQL formula to change a text field to Date/time field

edited Jan 3, 2020 12:31AM in Search / Reporting 8 comments

Can someone help me out or let me know if it is even possible in a Saved Search results formula to change a Free form text field into a Date/time format to subtract against a date field (i.e. {today}).

What I'm trying to do is take a custom free form text field that we populate with the date & time just like is seen in system notes (8/17/2010 11:03 am) and compare to the current date/time to get the "days since escalated". 

The formula would basically be ({sysdate} - (change field type({'freeformtext field'})) = days since escalated. 

I have tried "to_date" command but get an error on the results because I don't think this command is supported in Saved Searches.

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