When using Apricot Results, you may need to isolate either the month, year or day from a date object. A few uses for this could be:
Separating a year into quarters using the month (Q1= January, February, March, etc.)
Finding out how many participants were enrolled in one year
Comparing data from the beginning of a month to data at the end of a month
In order to do this, there are a few different functions you can use:
In all examples, we can assume that object in question is [Date Object], and that the one date it shows is 07/29/1992
Months:
To get the month from a date, you can use either the month or monthnumberofyear functions, depending on how you want it to show.
The Month function will show the month fully written as text. For example, If [Date Object] shows "07/29/1992" then =Month([Date Object]) will show "July"
Alternatively, if you want to show the month as a number, you can use the monthnumberofyear function. For example, If [Date Object] shows "07/29/1992" then =Monthnumberofyear([Date Object]) will show "7"
Years:
To get the year from a date, you simply use the year function. For example, If [Date Object] shows "07/29/1992" then =year([Date Object]) will show "1992"
Days:
In order to get the day from date, you can use the daynumberofmonth function. For example, If [Date Object] shows "07/29/1992" then =daynumberofmonth([Date Object]) will show "29"
You can even find which day of the week a date is on by using dayname or daynumberofweek functions
For example, If [Date Object] shows "07/29/1992" then
=dayname([Date Object]) will show "Wednesday"
and
=daynumberofweek([Date Object]) will show "3"