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- quartername - script and chart function
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:
Argument | Description |
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date | The date to evaluate. |
period_no | 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. |
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quartername('29/10/2013') | Returns |
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quartername('29/10/2013', -1) | Returns |
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quartername('29/10/2013', 0, 3) | Returns |
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Add the example script to your app and run it. Then add, at least, 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; |
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