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Hello community,

I have a calendar made out of labels in a gallery. I want to color the past dates with a different color so you see when dates are in the past.

I have on he Fill property of the labels :

If(DateValue(Concatenate(Label.Text,"/",Text(Year(Now())))) < Today(),Gray,Normal color)

So far its working for the dates but when we get near December, you see that January 2022 is also filled out to Gray as its still recognizes that 01/01/2022 is < Today().

I need help with figuring out a formula to only filter past dates but leave the dates for January next year.

Appreciate your help!

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WarrenBelz 156,299 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @StanP ,

I assume your Label.Text is something like 25/3, 12/4, 15/5 (or backwards if you are from USA) - if so how does it show 2022? If it is a full date, why add the current year on the end. Anyway, I did a test with Option A as below

With( { wDate: DateValue( Label.Text & "/" & Year(Today()) ) }, If( wDate < Today(), Gray, Green ) )

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Thanks for the reply @WarrenBelz ,

The app is a mock-up of a restaurant reservation app, I want to be able to reserve a spot for future dates at a restaurant, the label has a month/day as text because It does not look as good when you have year on it as well.

When I click the label, it gathers the dates within a collection and and adds /year value to it so it can be patched to a SharePoint list.

I want to be able to gray-out past dates but leave future dates open, with my expression it works but if we near December and try to book for January 2022, they are grayed out as well.

The one you suggested does the same as mine 😞 , it grays out the months and dates before 06/10/2021(Today) but near December you'd want to book a date for January but that would be grayed out too.

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Hi @StanP ,

Now I see the conundrum - you need a "next year" tick box or the like or your problem is unsolvable unless you want to assume that anything older than (say) six months ago is next year.

With( { wDate: DateValue( Label.Text & "/" & Year(Today()) ) }, If( wDate < Today() && wDate > Today - 180, Gray, Green ) )

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Hi @StanP ,

Just checking if you got the result you were looking for on this thread. Happy to help further if not.

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All good, @WarrenBelz , your suggested idea to put a "range" on it is superb!

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