Number of Months Left As Displayed in Table

leeloo_dallas
leeloo_dallas Member
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Is there a dynamic beastmode that counts the number of months displayed in a table?

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  • MarkSnodgrass
    MarkSnodgrass Coach

    You might need to be more specific as to what your are looking for, but if you are wanting the number of months left in the calendar year, you could do this:

    12 - MONTH(CURRENT_DATE())


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  • leeloo_dallas
    leeloo_dallas Member

    Hey Mark,

    This wouldn't be dynamic because it only takes into account the previous month.

    And it's not dynamic, so if I were to change the filter to display previous quarter, it only uses 1.

    So it would return 11, instead of 9.

  • leeloo_dallas
    leeloo_dallas Member

    In addition, there isn't a current month in the dataset, so I'm stuck.

  • MarkSnodgrass
    MarkSnodgrass Coach

    Just to be clear in case you aren't aware, CURRENT_DATE() is a built-in function that will return today's date whenever the card is viewed. MONTH() is a built-in function that returns the month number of a given date.

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  • GrantSmith
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    If you’re looking to calculate the number of months based on what data you have in your dataset you could do 

    COUNT(DISTICT LAST_DAY(`date`))


    last day returns the last day of a month for the given date. It’s a shortcut I use instead of extracting the year and then the month for a date.

    This won’t count a month if it’s missing In your dataset.

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  • leeloo_dallas
    leeloo_dallas Member

    Maybe it's just not possible. 

    COUNT(DISTICT LAST_DAY(`date`))

    returns 1 and doesn't count the rest of the months displayed.

    It breaks tables too.

  • GrantSmith
    GrantSmith Coach

    Can you post some anonymized sample data or screenshots so we can better understand the issue you’re having?

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  • leeloo_dallas
    leeloo_dallas Member

    Yeah, this is what I get in a pivot table

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