Year-Month in BAQ calculator

I am trying to display year-month as 2018-07 in a BAQ calculated field. The following only displays the year:

Year(LaborHed.ClockInDate) + ‘-’ + Month(LaborHed.ClockInDate)

What gives?

Thanks in advance.

It it displaying the year? Or the month added to the year? Ex clock-in date of 2-2-2016, is it displaying 2016 or 2018 (2016+2).

It’s probably treating them as integers and needs to be casted to characters.

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Actually upon 2nd glance, it’s not making sense at all. The 2nd column YM is the one where I have the calculation and it’s not even showing the correct year.
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it’s adding them, not concatenating them. Cast them as Nvarchar before you do the concatenation.

Got it with leading zeros for months 1 thru 9:

Cast(Year(LaborHed.ClockInDate) As Nvarchar(4)) + ‘-’ + RIGHT(‘0’ + Cast(Month(LaborHed.ClockInDate) As Nvarchar(2)),2)

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Wouldn’t LaborHed.ClockInDate.ToString("yyyy-MM")

do the trick?

(assuming the calc field type is nvchar)

EDIT: The above is incorrect. See the next two posts

Isn’t that C#? Baq is SQL

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Yes. (total brain fart)

But the following would work in a BAQ

LEFT(CONVERT(varchar, JobHead.ClosedDate, 23),7)

Format 23 is yyyy-MM-dd

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Does MM preserve the leading 0’s? That’s needed for sorting purposes when sorting numbers set up as NVARCHARS, (otherwise 22 comes before 3 etc.)

edit, looks like it does! Nice.

Apparently so…

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And I ALWAYS format dates as yyyy-mm-dd, when it will be used electronically. Even in files names.

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