GetFieldSelections - MonthYear

[#1]

Hey Guys,

I'm trying to pull a list of MonthYear and convert it to a number of the monthstart.

subfield(GetFieldSelections(MonthYear, ';'), ';',1)

Once I get it to this point it brings in the first MonthYear selected it is then converted to text. For example, (Jan-2010) but I need it as 40209 (1-31-2010).

I have tried wrapping date and num around it but then I get null.

I thought about doing a left 3 to grab the month and then a right 4 to grab the year. Then using makedate, but the month isn't a number.

[johnw · Accepted solution]

Your only problem might be that you need to wrap date#() instead of date():

num(date#(subfield(GetFieldSelections(MonthYear, ';'), ';',1),'MMM-YYYY'))

I think this would give the same result more efficiently, assuming MonthYear is sorted ascending (otherwise use max):

if(getselectedcount(MonthYear),num(min(MonthYear)))

Or if you don't mind taking the min of all possible values when nothing is selected:

num(min(MonthYear))

[#3]

Thanks John! date# worked!