Quarterly Date Field

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  • Supermansteel
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    • Dec 2007
    • 73

    Quarterly Date Field

    Our team does numerous tests each month. Each person can run a report to automatically tally up all the results for the quarter. I have then created a Form specifically to enter our Analysis for the Quarter because it goes up to the CEO (so I seperated it because it has to have many revisions with our comments). For the Date Field I can't figure out the best way to put the date together for the Quarter.

    Options I have come up with:
    1. Create a drop down that have numbers 1-4 for each quarter than have a second field for the Year. Then in my Query could put them together.
    2. I could just leave it as a Date field and let people enter dates in there and I could run a query to pull in all data between those dates.
    3. Create another table altogther that has 1st Quarter 2008, 2nd Quarter 2008, etc and have a drop down box for each of the quarter than run the query that way.


    Anyone have any other ideas or is one of these options above the best option I have?
  • PianoMan64
    Recognized Expert Contributor
    • Jan 2008
    • 374

    #2
    Originally posted by Supermansteel
    Our team does numerous tests each month. Each person can run a report to automatically tally up all the results for the quarter. I have then created a Form specifically to enter our Analysis for the Quarter because it goes up to the CEO (so I seperated it because it has to have many revisions with our comments). For the Date Field I can't figure out the best way to put the date together for the Quarter.

    Options I have come up with:
    1. Create a drop down that have numbers 1-4 for each quarter than have a second field for the Year. Then in my Query could put them together.
    2. I could just leave it as a Date field and let people enter dates in there and I could run a query to pull in all data between those dates.
    3. Create another table altogther that has 1st Quarter 2008, 2nd Quarter 2008, etc and have a drop down box for each of the quarter than run the query that way.


    Anyone have any other ideas or is one of these options above the best option I have?
    You simply take the field that displays the date and create an expression to display the quarter number 1 - 4 and the year. ex TheQuarter:=for mat([Name of date field],"Q/YYYY")

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    • Supermansteel
      New Member
      • Dec 2007
      • 73

      #3
      Originally posted by PianoMan64
      You simply take the field that displays the date and create an expression to display the quarter number 1 - 4 and the year. ex TheQuarter:=for mat([Name of date field],"Q/YYYY")

      Thanks for your help....

      Matt

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