topic Create YYYYMM and Year field in script from a date field in QlikView

Create YYYYMM and Year field in script from a date field

clemmytang — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi,

I have a field in my script called "Ordering_Date", the format of this column is set as a date (see attached image). I would like to create another field that essentially is a column that captures just the year and month, in the format "YYYMM" from the Ordering_Date field as well as a column that captures just the year. Would this be a convert formula? What should I add to my script to load those two requested columns?

Please advise.

Thanks in advance,

Clem

Re: Create YYYYMM and Year field in script from a date field

JuanGerardo — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:38:43 GMT

Try this:

Date(MonthStart(Ordering_Date), 'YYYMM') AS Ordering_Month, Year(Ordering_Date) AS Ordering_Year

Re: Create YYYYMM and Year field in script from a date field

clemmytang — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:51:03 GMT

Thanks for your reply. I added your suggestion to my script:

Didn't work 😞 I got the following error:

Re: Create YYYYMM and Year field in script from a date field

JuanGerardo — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:53:59 GMT

You must use the source field: PROC.ORDERING_DATE

Re: Create YYYYMM and Year field in script from a date field

clemmytang — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:04:03 GMT

Hi JG,

I tried that as well and it still did not work 😞

Re: Create YYYYMM and Year field in script from a date field

JuanGerardo — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 06:59:33 GMT

OK, I see the problem. You have two sections, the SQL part that runs the query against your Oracle database, and the LOAD part that tells Qlik what to do with those query results. This sentences must be included in the LOAD part as they are Qlik functions, something like this:

LOAD *, Date(MonthStart(ORDERING_DATE), 'YYYMM') AS Ordering_Month, Year(ORDERING_DATE) AS Ordering_Year ; SELECT .... FROM ... ;

And don't forget to remove those lines from the SQL sentence, as Oracle doesn't understand the Qlik functions.

Re: Create YYYYMM and Year field in script from a date field

clemmytang — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 19:41:24 GMT

JG, you are a genius 🙂 Your suggestion worked.

Thank you so much!!

Clem