topic Re: Set Analysis with date in App Development

Set Analysis with date

simotrab — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:08:14 GMT

Hi community,

today I have a problem with set analysis and dates. My goal to reach is to have a sum of a quantity in the month of today. Here what I have done:

Sum({$<TypeOfQuantity={"A"},[MonthName]={"=month(today())"}>}Quantity)

I've thought several solutions, but none of them worked.

My variable called MonthName is something like:

jan

feb

mar

...

dec

and in the setting of the script the name of the months are equal, i.e.:

jan

feb

mar

...

dec

Quite weird that if I put a constant in place of month(today()), it works!

So I tried

Sum({$<TypeOfQuantity={"A"},[MonthName]={"=month(date(today()))"}>}Quantity)

Sum({$<TypeOfQuantity={"A"},[MonthName]={"=monthname(today())"}>}Quantity)

But none of them worked.

How can I do it?

jmvilaplanap — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:12:35 GMT

Hi,

In my opinion

Try to use numbers instead formatted dates. For example

Sum({$<TypeOfQuantity={"A"},[MonthNum]={"=num(month(date(today())))"}>}Quantity)

I don't know why but not always the date functions return a data well formatted and less with Set Analysis.

Regards

simotrab — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:21:27 GMT

Hi Jose,

unluckily it does not work no one of these:

Sum({$<TypeOfQuantity={"A"},[MonthNum]={"=(month(today())"}>}Quantity)

Sum({$<TypeOfQuantity={"A"},[MonthNum]={"=month(date(today()))"}>}Quantity)

Sum({$<TypeOfQuantity={"A"},[MonthNum]={"=num(month(date(today())))"}>}Quantity)

jmvilaplanap — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:24:12 GMT

Hi Simone

You must to write your expression inside $(=EXPRESSION)

Sum({$<TypeOfQuantity={"A"},[MonthNum]={"$(=num(month(date(today()))))"}>}Quantity)

Try now

simotrab — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:37:00 GMT

Now it works fine, thanks!