Tuesday, 8 April 2014

SSRS - Get the quarter from a Date String.

kind of really really easy.  But sometimes you get the easy ones.  It is almost like SSRS or Microsoft needs a return quarter of date in the date object.  But I cannot seem to find one.  Anyhoo,  I needed to return the current Quarter of the date.  Fairly easy to write actually.
    Function GetQuarterStr(ByVal theDate As String) As String
        Dim theNow As Date
        Dim astr As String
        theNow = CDate(theDate)
        Select Case Month(theNow)
            Case 1, 2, 3
                astr = "Q1"
            Case 4, 5, 6
                astr = "Q2"
            Case 7, 8, 9
                astr = "Q3"
            Case Else
                astr = "Q4"
        End Select
        Return astr
    End Function

Call it with.  Code.GetQuarterStr(thestringdate) 

Works wonderfully.

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