Hi Brett,

You could convert the date which is an integer to a text, and then the text to a date.

You expression would be something like this:

FormatDateTime(TextToDate("2019-"+"11"+"-1"),"MMM")

Since you only need the month, you can fill the year and day with whatever. And just concatenate the texts to give you a date format but with your integer as a month in it. 

Your data from the table is the "11" on the expression above.

Hope it helps!

Hi,

As Rui Sequeira said.

you can use the built-in functions " FormatDateTime(Data, "MMM") "

ex: 

Regards,

Hi,

You could create a new date with your month and use the date to text conversion with the mmm format (it will give the month name). 

Or you can just write a function that receives an integer and return the name of month as output using a switch or a sequence of IFs. 

Other option, you can use the component Month Conversion.

Cheers,

Nuno Verdasca

Hi Brett,

I'm not sure you're still doing what you want to accomplish here, by the looks of it, your aggregate output is no longer grouped by month but by individual timestamps a request was made.  That's probably not your intention ??

just an alternative that I find easy to work with, is to group by month and anything else you might want to group by (status, customer,...) and add the min(date) as an extra calculated column to your aggregate.  

Then you can apply the formatting to that column for your chart.

See attached oml.

good luck with it,

Dorine

Hi, 

I hope this help you.

I built two examples, one that fetches the abbreviated month from the current date, and another that I construct a date with one month last per variable and then get that abbreviated month.

If this is not what you want, can you give me more detail about what you want?

Hey everyone I figured out a solution. I created a new entity attribute to just track the month and then I took the feedback you all applied and got the chart working properly on my dashboard! 

Hi Brett,

Although you already found a solution, I would like to share that there is also the following possibility:

There is this Date_MonthName server action that will ask you for a date, and in exchange will offer you the month name. 

Best regards,

João Delgado

In addition to what's been said above, note that the Platform, when the Label Attribute of a chart's DataPoint Structure contains a Text that's convertible to a Date or DateTime (e.g. the result of a DateTimeToText()), it will instruct Highcharts (the underlying chart engine) to create a date/time axis.

If you just supply a month number, like what the OP did, the Platform nor Highcharts will know this is actually a date, and treat the Label like any other Text. Now if Highcharts knows you're displaying dates, you can instruct it how to format that date. This describes the default, based on the scale of dates displayed. For month data, it will look like this:

If you don't want the year, you need to override the formatting, which you can do with the AdvancedFormat_Init Function, supplying the following JSON:

    xAxis: {
        type: 'datetime',
        dateTimeLabelFormats: {
            month: '%b'
        }
    }

Which will result in this:

Tl;dr: if it's about date/time, always use proper date/time values and use Highcharts to format the labels. Don't go formatting prematurely!