Dropping day from date format

Hi Smartsheet Community,

I need to report a date field in a report, however the client only wants to report mm-yyyy instead of the full date (dd-mm-yy).

For example, in the fields below they want to report 09/2020 and 04/2021, and 08/2020 and 08/2020 respectively

Is there anyway to drop the day component in another column which I can use for the report?

Thanks!

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  • Melissa Manzanera
    Answer ✓

    Hi Jack!

    We would have to have an extra column for each date column and select those for the report.

    Here are two formulas that might work for you:

    MM/YYYY (Adds the Zero when number of month is less than 10)

    =IF(MONTH([Baseline Operation Date]@row) < 10, "0" + MONTH([Baseline Operation Date]@row) + "/" + YEAR([Baseline Operation Date]@row), MONTH([Baseline Operation Date]@row) + "/" + YEAR([Baseline Operation Date]@row))


    MM/YYYY (If Month is less than 10, date will appear M/YYYY)

    MONTH([Current Operational Date]@row) + "/" + YEAR([Current Operational Date]@row)


    Here is an example (Formulas placed in the blue cells)


    Was this what you were looking for,

    -Melissa

Answers

  • Melissa Manzanera
    Answer ✓

    Hi Jack!

    We would have to have an extra column for each date column and select those for the report.

    Here are two formulas that might work for you:

    MM/YYYY (Adds the Zero when number of month is less than 10)

    =IF(MONTH([Baseline Operation Date]@row) < 10, "0" + MONTH([Baseline Operation Date]@row) + "/" + YEAR([Baseline Operation Date]@row), MONTH([Baseline Operation Date]@row) + "/" + YEAR([Baseline Operation Date]@row))


    MM/YYYY (If Month is less than 10, date will appear M/YYYY)

    MONTH([Current Operational Date]@row) + "/" + YEAR([Current Operational Date]@row)


    Here is an example (Formulas placed in the blue cells)


    Was this what you were looking for,

    -Melissa

  • Thanks, Melissa, that did the trick!!

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