Set a default date as 5 business days opposed to 5 days.

[Marc43]

I currently have a date variable with a default value set for 5 days past the day the request is submitted. However, we would like to set this as 5 business days to not include weekends. Is this possible? Below is the script we are currently using for the default value:

javascript: new GlideDateTime(gs.daysAgo(-5)).getDisplayValue();

[Bill11]

Honestly at this point why not set it for 7 days? Worst case your 5 days ends on Friday and you have a partial business day while it closes on Sunday.

[Marc43]

Unfortunately that is not the route the customers want to go. 

[vkachineni]

//Untested code

//try something like

var gdt = new GlideDateTime();
var daysout = 5;

//if today is saturday
if(gdt.getDayOfWeek() == 6)
{
daysout = daysout + 2;
}

//if today is sunday
if(gdt.getDayOfWeek() == 7)
{
daysout = daysout + 1;
}

//calculate the days out
daysout = daysout *-1;

 var days5out = new GlideDateTime(gs.daysAgo(daysout)).getDisplayValue();

gs.print(days5out);

[Marc43]

This does not appear to work when I set it as a default value, which is where the date will need to populate.