Report- Format Date MMYY

fredp1

Hi,

How do I format a field on a report to show in a MMYY format instead of DDMMYY?

Thanks
Fred

kriki

this is one way:

txtYear := FORMAT(DATE2DMY(TODAY,3) MOD 100);
txtMonth := FORMAT(DATE2DMY(TODAY,2) MOD 100);
IF strlen(txtyear) = 1 then
  txtyear := '0' + txtyear;
IF strlen(txtmonth) = 1 then
  txtmonth := '0' + txtmonth;


txt := txtMonth + '/' + txtYear;

Belias

or this method:

format(mytable."posting date",0,'<Month,2>/<Year,2>')

@kriki: :? can you explain your code to us little terrains?

i understood, but...are you joking or i am not smart enough?It's a quite hard coded method, is there a particular reason to use your method instead of mine?

kriki

Belias wrote:

or this method:

format(mytable."posting date",0,'<Month,2>/<Year,2>')

@kriki: :? can you explain your code to us little terrains?

i understood, but...are you joking or i am not smart enough?It's a quite hard coded method, is there a particular reason to use your method instead of mine?

That after 10 years of NAV, I still can't use the format string of NAV :whistle:
Maybe also because I created my own that is a lot easier to use (it is based on the Progress format string).

Belias

kriki wrote:

Belias wrote:

or this method:

format(mytable."posting date",0,'<Month,2>/<Year,2>')

@kriki: :? can you explain your code to us little terrains?

i understood, but...are you joking or i am not smart enough?It's a quite hard coded method, is there a particular reason to use your method instead of mine?

That after 10 years of NAV, I still can't use the format string of NAV :whistle:
Maybe also because I created my own that is a lot easier to use (it is based on the Progress format string).

eheh...i've had to press F1 to remember how to format like this :whistle:
it's incredibely difficult to remember all the faces of this function

kriki

Belias wrote:

eheh...i've had to press F1 to remember how to format like this :whistle:
it's incredibely difficult to remember all the faces of this function

And it is difficult to use, with long formatting strings.
If I want a date, I do this:
DD/MM/YYYY for European format
MM/DD/YYYY for US format
YYYY/MM/DD for best format
YYYYMMDD for a format I can easily convert in an integer.
And I can also use MMMMMM to write the month completely. Or M######### to remove blanks for "May".

Albertvh

Hi

I know that I also had a lot of trouble with the FORMAT statement but dates are pretty simple

FORMAT("Posting Date",0,'<Day>/<Month>/<Year>');   gives 1/01/09 dd/mm/yy
FORMAT("Posting Date",0,'<Day>/<Month>/<Year4>'); gives 1/01/2009  dd/mm/yyyy
FORMAT("Posting Date",0,'<Day> <Month Text> <Year>'); gives 1 January 09
FORMAT("Posting Date",0,'<Day> <Month Text,3> <Year4>'); gives 1 Jan 2009

Hope this helps a bit with the frustrations


Albert