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Anonymous
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7 years ago

groups and binning

Hello,    I have list of month year in a table. (Jan 2018, Feb 2018, Mar 2018, Apr 2018, May 2018, June 2018, Jul 2018, Aug 2018, Sept 2018, Oct 2018, etc), I want to group it every 2 months, so, F...
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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Then you could do:

YourCalculatedColumn =
SWITCH(
  TRUE(),
  LEFT(< month column >, 2) = "Jan", "Feb " & RIGHT(< month column >, 4) ,
  LEFT(< month column >, 2) = "Feb", "Feb " & RIGHT(< month column >, 4),
  ...
)

If this solves the problem, please like it and mark it as solution.

 

Best regards,

Kristjan76

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

HI!, 

 

I tried to use your first solution, because turns out the column is in date form, but it's not what I want to do. 

so what happen is Jan and Feb = Feb

March and April = March

 

With this, I only have 6 data groups in a year, it's supposed to be 12. 

 

but what I wanted is

Dec and Jan = Jan

Jan and Feb = Feb, 

Feb and March = March

March and April = April.

 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    7 years ago

    I created a table consists of 2 columns Grouping and Period. 

    Content of the data will be

    1. Grouping - Period
    2. Jan 2018 - Dec 2017
    3. Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
    4. Feb 2018 - Jan 2018
    5. Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
    6. Mar 2018 - Feb 2018
    7. Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
    8. and so on...

    Then match the period column with the same in other table, and group the chart based on Grouping column.

    It's a bit hardcoded, but it works for now...if anybody have a simpler way/more dynamic way to do this, I would appreciate. 

     

    Thanks & Rgds,

    Lina

     

     

     

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      Anonymous
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      7 years ago

      Hi Anonymous ,

       

      Please share a part of sample data so that we can test and coding formula on it.

       

      Notice: if you not have permission to upload sample file, please upload to onedrive or google drive and share link here.

       

      Regards,

      Xiaoxin Sheng

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        Anonymous
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        7 years ago

        Hello Anonymous ,

         

        I did mention the ultimate goal is to be able to group Dec 2017 and Jan 2018 as Jan 2018, Jan and Feb 2018 as Feb 2018 and so on. 

         

        GroupingPeriod
        Jan-18Dec-17
        Jan-18Jan-18
        Feb-18Jan-18
        Feb-18Feb-18
        Mar-18Feb-18
        Mar-18Feb-18

         

        Thank you & rgds,

        Lina