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Good morning.
I am trying to define a Fiscal Calendar and have one field I cannot get to work correctly. That is the Fisc_MonthStart for January of the year. In the attached jpg file the field is empty but it should read ‘2021-12-26’.
My fiscal year is from 26th February to the following year 25th February.
Fisc_MonthStart is defined as below.
if(month(FiscalDate) > 2,
MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate,0,$(FirstMonthOfYear)))), Num(Month(FiscalDate)-1),26)
,MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate,0,$(FirstMonthOfYear)))+1), Num(Month(FiscalDate)-1 ),26)) as [Fisc_MonthStart]
I include the qvf to show what I have this far. I really appreciate a solution for this.
Thank you.
Hi John,
The problem is that when you were doing this calculation and the month was January (1), subtracting 1 gave a 0.
So I added another clause to the if condition like this:
////Issue
,if(month(FiscalDate) > 2,MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate,0,$(FirstMonthOfYear)))), Num(Month(FiscalDate)-1),26)
, if(Month(FiscalDate)>1, MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate,0,$(FirstMonthOfYear)))+1), Num(Month(FiscalDate)-1 ),26)
, MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate, 0, $(FirstMonthOfYear)))+1), 1, 26))) as [Fisc_MonthStart]
and it appears to rectify your issue.
Hi John,
The problem is that when you were doing this calculation and the month was January (1), subtracting 1 gave a 0.
So I added another clause to the if condition like this:
////Issue
,if(month(FiscalDate) > 2,MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate,0,$(FirstMonthOfYear)))), Num(Month(FiscalDate)-1),26)
, if(Month(FiscalDate)>1, MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate,0,$(FirstMonthOfYear)))+1), Num(Month(FiscalDate)-1 ),26)
, MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate, 0, $(FirstMonthOfYear)))+1), 1, 26))) as [Fisc_MonthStart]
and it appears to rectify your issue.
Hi @Lisa_P ,
You are sooo clever.. I made one small change and I think it's perfect. It is now:
,if(month(FiscalDate) > 2,MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate,0,$(FirstMonthOfYear)))), Num(Month(FiscalDate)-1),26)
, if(Month(FiscalDate)>1, MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate,0,$(FirstMonthOfYear)))+1), Num(Month(FiscalDate)-1 ),26)
, MakeDate((Year(YearStart(FiscalDate,0, $(FirstMonthOfYear)))), 12, 26))) as [Fisc_MonthStart]
I checked other years and Jan is always correct.
Thank you very much.