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concatenating a string and expression output

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:07:16 GMT

HI all

i am facing problems in concatenating two values

scenario: i have a date 6/30/2012, but i want to display it as Q2 2012

how can i do that?

i thought of concatenating Q2 with =year(today())-1, but it doesnt work

or can i use some variable, if so how?

pls assist me.

thanks in advance

sujay

alexandros17 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:11:32 GMT

Suppose that your field name is myDt:

Let Quarter =

if(month(myDt)>=1 and month(myDt)<=3, 'Q1',

if(month(myDt)>=4 and month(myDt)<=6, 'Q2',

if(month(myDt)>=7 and month(myDt)<=9, 'Q3',

if(month(myDt)>=10 and month(myDt)<=12, 'Q4',

'ND'

)

);

Your result will be :

$(Quarter) & text(year(myDt))

Gysbert_Wassenaar — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:17:41 GMT

expression: ='Q' & ceil(month(MyDate)/3) & ' ' & year(MyDate)

or in the script as a new field: 'Q' & ceil(month(MyDate)/3) & ' ' & year(MyDate) as Quarter

hic — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:28:32 GMT

I would take Gysbert's expression and wrap the Dual() function around it, Then the values will get sorted correctly.

Dual(

'Q' & ceil(month(MyDate)/3) & ' ' & year(MyDate),

QuarterStart(MyDate)

) as Quarter

HIC

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:35:54 GMT

its perfect

points assigned

thanks

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 03:41:07 GMT

THanks &' '& worked !

abergheim — Tue, 19 May 2020 02:38:58 GMT

Try

='Q2 ' & text(year(today())-1)