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i have date in MM-YYYY format , i need to sort records based on Year in ascending order.

yogeshrajamani
6 - Meteoroid
‎02-24-2021 07:17 PM

i need to have sort as below

 

01-2016

02-2016

03-2016

01-2017

02-2017

03-2017

01-2018

02-2018

03-2018

 

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MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus
‎02-24-2021 07:30 PM

How about a formula for SORT_DATE

 

RIGHT([date],4) + "-" + left([date],2)

 

 that should sort well. 

cheers,

 

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Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris
‎02-24-2021 08:33 PM

@yogeshrajamani 
Lets just convert it to Date.

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grazitti_sapna
17 - Castor
‎02-24-2021 09:36 PM

Hi @yogeshrajamani,

 

Here is my take on this problem.

 

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I hope it helps.

Sapna Gupta
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