I have a "Date" field named "X". I have another field "Y" that references a "Field" type.
I would like to get just the "Year" value from "X" into "Y".
I would prefer doing this using GUI instead of adding/modifying PHP code. Is there a module that can help accomplish this?
Both "X" and "Y" are in the same Content Type.
Thanks for the help!!
Within views module you can group by date without having to duplicate a datetime/timestamp field only to retrieve the year part. For you custom view :
Under format title, use "fields" beside "show", select your prefer settings
Under Fields title, select the date field you need to tune, Formatter as default and Date format as Custom. As Custom date format put Y (see here https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php#refsect1-datetime.format-parameters). If desired field can be hidden from the view, up to you.
Return under format title, format -> Settings : there you can choose your grouping field you just created, even if hidden.
This is out of the box but I advise you to play around with views settings, one at the time, to understand what changes what.
Views is very powerful.
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I am using current version of Kibana, not showing string type fields to select for x-axis (Line or Bar charts). Am I missing anything here?
Here is my sample json. How to breakdown by IterationName?
JSON
{
"iterationName":"Sprint 60",
"manualEffortInSec":300,
"automationEffortInSec":100,
"hrlyRate":150,
"manualEffortCost":750,
"automationEffortCost":250,
"verdictInteger":1
}
for visualizing fields in buckets(x-axis) you should, for example, choose the "Terms" and under that choose your field which is "iterationName".
this part shows all the fields regardless of their type.
maybe there is a problem in your mapping, it is better to go to the discover tab and check the fields of your index pattern to see if all the fields are indexed or not
I would think this is relatively straight forward but cant find documentation on how to do it(or the correct syntax to use) and my messing around hasn't worked so far.
For Dates we have a custom format called Month /Day /Year. This pulls back a the date(as a date type) in date format as such:
"14 April 2003"
The code behind this is:
(DATEPART('year', [Close Date])*10000 + DATEPART('month', [Close Date])*100 + DATEPART('day', [Close Date]))
What I want to get back is the month is numeric format like:
"14.04.2003"
Is it simply changing the "month" part in the code to a different type? Has any one come across this?
Cheers
lampbob, I'd just use date formatting which will mean you will still be able to use all the date-fields flexibility that Tableau provides.
Select Custom format with the following input:
dd.mm.yyyy
See the screen below for more details:
This can be easily achieved using the 'Format' option in Tableau. Here are the steps to follow to format the date field as you have specified.
Add Date field to your Rows/Columns field on a Tableau worksheet.
Set the format of the Date to be DAY(Date).
Click on options for 'DAY(Date)' and go to 'Format...'
On the Format DAY(Date) panel, go to Scale -> Dates.
Select 'Custom' option and type in 'mm.dd.yyyy'. Now the date will be in the string format you need.
Screenshots:
String format for date,
Changing to 'DAY' and 'Format...'
If you are only concerned about how the date is presented, then leave the datatype as a date, and use a custom format string via the format pane to display it as desired.
Followed your advice and just had to change the date pill, in the column field, to a continuous value. Then right clicked -> format -> Scale -> custom. Then used the above suggested format setting. Thanks Petr, woodhead92.
I have a requirement where depending on the parameter selected the table field should be displayed as text or date. For eg, if the user selects a true, the OriginDate field which is a datetime type should be displayed as a date in the report else should be displayed as a text. I tried creating a formula an doing something like below, and then placing the formula in the details section of the report but it doesnt work due to different datatypes returned.
if {?Mailmerge}=true then
ToText({Travel.OriginDatetime}, "M/d/yy")
else
{Travel.OriginDatetime}
Is there a way I can accompalish the above requirement so that I do not end up creating 2 reports one with field displayed as text and other as date?
Try creating a formula that returns your field as a string totext({Travel.OriginDateTime},"M/d/yy") and overlay it with the original field {Travel.OriginDateTime} and conditionally suppress them based on the value of {?MailMerge} such that only one shows in any one instance of the report.
If I'm following you, you want to only show M/d/yy when ?MailMerge is true, otherwise yuo want to show the full date?
You can't show different datatypes in the same formula, so just convert them both parts of the conditional statement into strings:
if {?Mailmerge}=true then
ToText({Travel.OriginDatetime}, "M/d/yy") // 8/30/12
else
ToText({Travel.OriginDatetime}, "M/d/yy hh:mm:ss") // 8/30/12 02:06:00
I don't know what exactly your dates look like in the database, but you can use the above as a guideline into formatting your date based on the ?MailMerge parameter.
Is there any way to set a default value to a field in a report? I have a lot of String fields in a report and would like them to display "0,00" when they're null.
Supposing the field name is "value", in the "Text Field Expression", write:
($F{value} != null) ? $F{value} : "0.00"
You can also select "Blank when null" in the properties of the text field if you want that. Other options are more flexible but this does the trick very quick and easy.
medopal's answer is good, but 2 additions:
1) You can make the syntax shorter:
($F{field_name}) ? $F{field_name} : "0.00"
2) Make sure your "else" data is of the same class as the field's value, otherwise you'll get errors when it tries to coerce numbers into string, etc. etc. This was something that, as I started out, I mixed up.
Did you try set a pattern in the text field?
If you are using iReport this can be found in the properties for the text field in the Text Field Properties section.
Try something along the lines of ###0.00 to represent 1234.56, which would always display 0.00 even if it is null.
This is the easiest way is to use Coalesce() or NVL() function of database in your data-source query to restrict null data on your report.
But it depends on if you are allowed to change the datasource query or not. If not then you can go for other solutions provided in previous answers.
Basically I have a field in my table called sex, and it's a boolean. true for male, false for female. How can I display it this way instead of as 0, 1?
You want to create a formula field and add the formula field to the report instead of the sex field. Something like this should work (my syntax may be slightly off)
if {MyTable.sex} = 1
then
"male"
else
"female"
If you are unfamiliar with formula fields they are just expressions you can use and display in the report. In the 'Field Explorer' side bar in Crystal Reports you can see list of all the Database Fields etc. Just right click on the Formula Fields and add a new one. After you create the formula field you drag it onto your report layout just like any other normal field.
Use a formula field. Put, say, #Sex into your report, then edit it to be something like:
//may need tweaked....
If {database.table.sex} then
male
else
female;
My Crystal formula syntax is really rusty, so that may not be right as written. It might need to be :
//may need tweaked....
Stringvar displaySex;
If {database.table.sex} then
displaySex = "male"
else
displaySex = "female";
displaySex
And the line-end (";") format might not be right....
If you right-click on the original database field and choose "Format Field...", you can set the Display String on the Common tab using one of the formulas above, instead of creating a separate formula to do the calculation.