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MikeTamoush
Qrew Commander
3 years ago

Different ideas for sorting by month in a summary report

When users are looking at reports, I think it looks nice and clean to list months in the following way:

December 2020
January 2021
February 2021

I have a formula field which displays in this format, and in table reports I can display this field, but then sort by a date field so my order looks like above.

However, Summary Reports you need to sort on your summary field. All I can think of is to make the name something like:

2020 (12)December
2021 (1)January
2021 (2)February

To sort in the correct order. I don't think that looks very good. Anyone else run into this and come up with a nicer solution?

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Mike Tamoush
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2 Replies

  • .. so you are unwilling to simply group by date and select Month to group by?

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    Mark Shnier (YQC)
    mark.shnier@gmail.com
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    • MikeTamoush's avatar
      MikeTamoush
      Qrew Commander
      *Puts palm on head*

      I can't believe how many times I've used my 'sneaky trick' to do something QuickBase already did natively. Sigh. Thanks as always.

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