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Dynamically selecting column

Meenssankar
6 - Meteoroid

Hi,

 

I have been working on workflow which is having column from Jan to Dec. I need to pickup current month. For instance , if current month is July it should pickup only July values. 

 

Column name will be like SUMOFCY01,SUMOFCY02...till SUMOFCY12. If it is JUly, then it should pick up 'SUMOFCY07'

 

Thanks

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atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @Meenssankar 

 

You can use dynamic select like below. Since the current month is 08 it's selecting column name ending with 08.

 

Workflow:

atcodedog05_0-1629995289632.png

 

Hope this helps : )

 

Meenssankar
6 - Meteoroid

That really helps! However, It should select previous month like if it is AUG , it should be JUly SUMOFCY07. Also, same data set also having SUMOFPY01,SUMofPY02...In this case, it will give both SUMOFPY08,SUMOFCY08. But I need CY08 only.

 

 Fields :

 

Banker ProductCategory SumOfPY01 SumOfPY02 SumOfPY03 SumOfPY04 SumOfPY05 SumOfPY06 SumOfPY07 SumOfPY08 SumOfPY09 SumOfPY10 SumOfPY11 SumOfPY12 SumOfCY01 SumOfCY02 SumOfCY03 SumOfCY04 SumOfCY05 SumOfCY06 SumOfCY07 SumOfCY08 SumOfCY09 SumOfCY10 SumOfCY11 SumOfCY12 Segment Sales_Region

Meenssankar
6 - Meteoroid

Right([Name], 2) =
Padleft(Tostring(DateTimeMonth(DateTimeNow())-1),2,"0") 

 

I used the above one and I am getting previous month data. However, there is a prefix 'SUMOFCY' . How to add that in the formulae.

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @Meenssankar 

 

Update formula like below.

 

 

 

Right([Name], 2) =
Padleft(Tostring(DateTimeMonth(DateTimeNow())-1),2,"0") 

and

Contains([Name],"CY")

 

 

 

Workflow:

atcodedog05_0-1629996371713.png

 

Hope this helps : )

 

Meenssankar
6 - Meteoroid

That's so quick and works well. Many Thanks.

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Happy to help : ) @Meenssankar 

Cheers and have a nice day!

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