find max quarter (Year-Q1)

[Anonymous]

I have a field where the values are stored as

2001-Q1

2002-Q4

2000-Q2

.

.

.So on

I want to find the max value in the front end. ,and its should be displayed in 'YYYY-Q' format

Any tips ..as they are interpreted as string values

[swuehl · Accepted solution]

Doesn't

=MaxString(QuarterField)

return the latest quarter?

But it might be good to interpret your values as duals, so you can use Date /Time functions on them.

edit: Interpreting like

LOAD *,

Dual(Quarter, QuarterStart(Makedate(Left(Quarter,4)),Right(Quarter,1)-1)) as QuarterDual

INLINE [

Quarter

2001-Q1

2002-Q4

2000-Q2

];

[#3]

wot ever you decide, always go back to your base unit as users are fickle, get it working @ the base unit, the rest should fall into place

[Anonymous]

Thank you swuel, it works!

but the only problem is in the textbox it shows the numberic values I want to display as YYYY-Q

How can it be done

Is this the only way

=Date(max(QuarterDual),'YYYY')&'-Q'&ceil(month(max(QuarterDual))/3)

[swuehl]

Yes, keeping the text format of a dual value when e.g. using Max() might get annoying.

In your specific case, you should be able to use MaxString(Quarter) or MaxString(QuarterDual)

In other cases, you might need to reformat the value.

[Anonymous]

Wow!,I never knew there about maxstring() function .