# quartername - script and chart function

This function returns a display value showing the months of the quarter (formatted according to the MonthNames script variable) and year with an underlying numeric value corresponding to a timestamp of the first millisecond of the first day of the quarter.

Syntax:

QuarterName(date[, period\_no[, first\_month\_of\_year]])

**Return data type:** dual

Arguments:

QuarterName arguments

| Argument | Description |
| --- | --- |
| date | The date to evaluate. |
| period\_no | period\_no is an integer, where the value<br>0 indicates the quarter which contains date.<br>Negative values in period\_no indicate<br>preceding quarters and positive values indicate succeeding quarters. |
| first\_month\_of\_year | If you<br>want to work with (fiscal) years not starting in January, indicate<br>a value between 2 and 12 in first\_month\_of\_year. |

Example 1:

`quartername('29/10/2013')`

Returns Oct-Dec 2013.

Example 2:

`quartername('29/10/2013', -1)`

Returns Jul-Sep 2013.

Example 3:

`quartername('29/10/2013', 0, 3)`

Returns Sep-Nov 2013.

Example 4:

Add the example script to your document and run it. Then add, at least, the fields listed in the results column to a sheet in your document to see the result.

In this example, for each invoice date in the table, the quarter name is created based on the quarter containing InvID. The first month in the year is specified as month 4.

`TempTable:` `LOAD RecNo() as InvID, * Inline [` `InvDate` `28/03/2012` `10/12/2012` `5/2/2013` `31/3/2013` `19/5/2013` `15/9/2013` `11/12/2013` `2/3/2014` `14/5/2014` `13/6/2014` `7/7/2014` `4/8/2014` `];` ` ` `InvoiceData:` `LOAD *,` `QuarterName(InvDate,  0, 4) AS QtrName` `Resident TempTable;`

`Drop table TempTable;`

The resulting table contains the original dates and a column with the return value of the quartername() function.

Example 4 results

| InvDate | QtrName |
| --- | --- |
| 28/03/2012 | Jan-Mar 2011 |
| 10/12/2012 | Oct-Dec 2012 |
| 5/2/2013 | Jan-Mar 2012 |
| 31/3/2013 | Jan-Mar 2012 |
| 19/5/2013 | Apr-Jun 2013 |
| 15/9/2013 | Jul-Sep 2013 |
| 11/12/2013 | Oct-Dec 2013 |
| 2/3/2014 | Jan-Mar 2013 |
| 14/5/2014 | Apr-Jun 2014 |
| 13/6/2014 | Apr-Jun 2014 |
| 7/7/2014 | Jul-Sep 2014 |
| 4/8/2014 | Jul-Sep 2014 |