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.
period_no is an integer, where the value
0 indicates the quarter which contains date.
Negative values in period_no indicate
preceding quarters and positive values indicate succeeding quarters.
first_month_of_year
If you
want to work with (fiscal) years not starting in January, indicate
a value between 2 and 12 in first_month_of_year.
Scripting examples
Example
Result
quartername('29/10/2013')
Returns Oct-Dec 2013.
quartername('29/10/2013', -1)
Returns Jul-Sep 2013.
quartername('29/10/2013', 0, 3)
Returns Sep-Nov 2013.
Example:
Add the example script to your app and run it. Then add the fields listed in the results column to a sheet in your app 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 of 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.
Results table
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
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