Convert a series of dates to months

tabitha shared this question ago

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Hello,

I have a list of start on site dates and I want to convert these to months instead. So the list will show September instead of 23/09/2018.

Is this possible?

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Mike Sheehan ●

Hi Tabitha,

Thank you for reaching out. This is indeed possible and in fact easily accomplished right through UI.

Click the arrow next to your date field, click Format > Edit > set Format to Date Part Formatter > set Format under that to Month Name:

Date changes from this:

To showing the month name:

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Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Regards,

Mike

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tabitha ●

Brilliant! That worked perfectly. Next quick one. how do I get this heat grid to put the months in the right order please?

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Mike Sheehan ●

Hi Tabitha,

This depends on your underlying data. If your Month data is a Dimension set to Text, you can't simply get it to sort in another way other than alphanumeric order. If, however, your data is in Date format at a db/view level, it will properly sort:

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Hopefully this helps. Since the original issue is resolved, I'm going to mark this as Answered. If you have further questions regarding your second question, make sure your data is of the correct data type first, and if not, correct it, and if you're still experiencing issues, please open a separate ticket.

Thanks,

Mike

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