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hfung1
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Hi,

I was wondering if it was possible to split a date field (YYYY-MM-DD format) into a YEAR then a MONTH field. Then, I would allow the user to select which grouped time frame they would like to view the report. I do not want the user to select a start and end date, but instead just pick the month.
For example, a user would select FY 2013 and then select APRIL and it would show the records from 2013-04-01 to 2013-04-30.

Thanks.

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diogopc
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One way of doing this is creating the YEAR and MONTH field in a DEFINE, with the use of the DPART function to extract the components you want:

 
 YEAR/I4 = DPART(DATE, 'YEAR', 'I11');
 MONTH/I4 = DPART(DATE, 'MM', 'I11');


Then you can update your WHERE clauses to filter on those 2 fields and create the prompts for them.


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Ram Prasad E
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Considering the performance, I would suggest to construct logic to build end date based on month selected and directly filter on the DB column instead of defined column. By this your query may use INDEX for better performance.

Thanks,
Ram


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