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MelissaReed
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I have looked through every possible date function and can't figure this one out. I have an input value of Month Name, Year (IE: Apr, 17). I need to convert that to a date (either 04/17 or even 04/01/17) so I can compare it against a date field. Any ideas?

TIA!

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Balakrishnan Palanisamy
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Hi,

Guess it might help you... Not sure which format you are getting.. If you let me know the format as well then i can give you the exact coding.

Hope this works for you.
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COMPUTE
Date/HYYMD = DT(2009 APR 01) ;
Date1/HYYM = DT(2009 APR) ;
Date2/HMD = DT(APR 01) ;
Date3/HMY = DT(APR 17) ;
BY COUNTRY
END

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Hank W.
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Where/how are you getting this input value? if its from the HTML front end, theres a plethora of display/actual combos there. If it is coming from somewhere else or input manually? then you need to start with what the incoming format is.


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BabakNYC
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Please provide us an example of what you're trying to accomplish. Input could mean many things and the answer depends on the context.


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Doug
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Is "Apr, 17" the actual or display format of the field which you want to convert? Whether it's the actual or display format is critical to the solution.

You can find almost 1001 ways to work with dates in WebFOCUS in a book, from IBI, of the same name.




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Chaudhary
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Apr, 17


Its depend on your use case , but you can get an idea
-SET &DATE = 'Jan,17';
-SET &MONTHNAME=GETTOK(&DATE,&DATE.LENGTH,1,',',&DATE.LENGTH,'A&DATE.LENGTH');
-SET &MONTHYEAR = DECODE &MONTHNAME(Jan '01', Feb '02' Mar '03' Apr '04' May '05' Jun '06' Jul '07' Aug '08' Sep '09' Oct '10' Nov '11' Dec '12')|'/'|GETTOK(&DATE,&DATE.LENGTH,2,',',&DATE.LENGTH,'A&DATE.LENGTH');
-TYPE &MONTHYEAR


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Thank you for the feedback so far. I have a chart (tickets per month/year) that has the x-axis in MtY format which I'm passing to a drilldown report. I'm having trouble with the drilldown using the value and am looking for a better way to modify the incoming value so that I can use it in my where clause for the drilldown. Is there something that will take MtY and change it back to a more useable format?


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BabakNYC
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Assuming your drill down report has a WHERE fieldname EQ &VAR, what is the format of fieldname? If you run the drill down report on its own, you should get prompted for &VAR in the above WHERE test. What do you enter to get a successful answer? You have to make sure whatever you pass to &VAR is the format it expects.


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Hank W.
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hmmm... I wonder would it work the actual field being in an usable format and the label you see being in the MtY... or then using a hidden field...


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MelissaReed
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Originally posted by Hank W.:
hmmm... I wonder would it work the actual field being in an usable format and the label you see being in the MtY... or then using a hidden field...


I've actually done that too, but have run into all kinds of issues when I try using stacked bar charts or multiple series in a bar chart. I'm trying to have a consistent approach regardless of my style of chart (if that is possible).


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MelissaReed
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Making progress... I got my input value into 04/01/17 but now I need to transform that into a date value that I can use to compare against my submit date field. No matter which function I try, I end up getting a zero. Any ideas?


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FP Mod Chuck
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Hi Melissa

Please share your current code with us so we can provide proper guidance.

Thanks


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-SET &MONTHNAME=GETTOK(&MONTH_YEAR,&MONTH_YEAR.LENGTH,1,',',&MONTH_YEAR.LENGTH,'A3');
-SET &INPUTDATE = '20'|GETTOK(&MONTH_YEAR,&MONTH_YEAR.LENGTH,2,' ',&MONTH_YEAR.LENGTH,'A2')|'/'| DECODE &MONTHNAME(Jan '01', Feb '02' Mar '03' Apr '04' May '05' Jun '06' Jul '07' Aug '08' Sep '09' Oct '10' Nov '11' Dec '12')|'/01/';
-SET &BEGIN_DATE = HCNVRT(HDTTM('&INPUTDATE',8,'HMDYYS'),'(HMDYY)',10,'A10');
-SET &END_DATE = HCNVRT(HDTTM(DATEADD('&INPUTDATE', 'M', 1),8,'HMDYYS'),'(HMDYY)',10,'A10');

This is what I ended up using. It seems to be working pretty good. Thank you Chaudhary for the suggestions


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This is what I ended up using. It seems to be working pretty good. Thank you Chaudhary for the suggestions

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