SearchKit - Add next_birthday calc field

[colemanw]

Overview

Adds a calculated field to make it easy to perform "upcoming birthday" searches.

Before

Could not create "upcoming birthday" searches in SearchKit.

After

Technical Details

This field returns an integer from 0 (birthday is today) to 364 (birthday was yesterday). Or maybe on leap years that would be 365.

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[eileenmcnaughton]

@colemanw I feel like as soon as we add this people will want the actual date (e.g to include in a calendar) - would it be hard to add that too?

[colemanw]

@eileenmcnaughton you can already get the birth month and the birth day using field transformations, and you could put them together in a single field using rewrite. Or you could use rewrite plus a smarty date formatter to leave off the year.

[eileenmcnaughton]

OK - well this is useful - we can worry about the other if it arises - I still think the field re-write for a feed is harder than it might appear as you can't just combine date+month + this year - cos it might be next year

[colemanw]

cos it might be next year

Yea actually it will be every year. I'm not quite sure how you do that with a cal feed, but I guess generating one for this year and one for next year is pretty good.

[jofranz]

@jensschuppe Glad I didn't refactor birthday reports :D Thanks @colemanw !

[WebmasterBouclier]

@colemanw Thanks again for this quick and wonderful answer. You made my day :-)
As promised, I tried a few configurations, and all seems to work fine.
Tested:

• Next birthday in ≤ 7 days : OK
• Next birthday in ≤ 400 days : OK, only displays the contact once, over the next 365 days
• Next birthday in ≤ -30 days: OK, no result displayed
• Next birthday in ≥ 0 days : OK, all contacts with birthdate displayed, only once

Peter

[colemanw]

Glad it's working for you @WebmasterBouclier, thanks for testing.