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Adding a date-based column rule that ignores weekends

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Hi there, I am building a report that has column rules attached, that turn tasks different colors based on due dates. My first two rules turn tasks that are due today (task planned completion date equals $$TODAY) yellow, and tasks that are overdue (task planned completion date less than $$TODAY) red. I've added a third rule, which will turn tasks due tomorrow ($$TODAY+1d) purple. This works as expected-- except it literally turns the next day's task purple, so if you look at this report on a Friday, only tasks due Saturday will turn purple. I'd like this "+1" to exclude weekends and look only at typical M-F business days, just like our project task dates do automatically. Does anyone know if this can be accomplished? Screenshot attached for reference. Thanks in advance!
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Hi Becca, I don't believe this is possible via the normal UI. There's a chance it might be possible via text mode, With calculated fields, there is DAYOFWEEK(date) which "Returns the day of week for the given date as a number, between 1 (Sunday) and 7 (Saturday)". This could possibly be built into some logic regarding to make it count tomorrow as the next weekday. Not sure but let's see if there are any gurus' thoughts on this. Regards, David