Need consistent way for date time data in grouping variable


Version: 2021

Type: Features

Category: Analysis

Subcategory: General

Jira: ORG-22216


  • When display julian date as Month format, date value with same Month will be considered as same group.

  • Support sort result column by a internal order depends on Date format.

    • 10 (the 5th one, day): 1 to 31

    • Fri (the 6th one, day of week ): Monday to Sunday, Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

    • Jul (the 17th one, month display): January to December, Jan, Feb,...,Dec

    • Q3 (the 19th one, quarter display), Q1 to Q4

    • 2020 (the 8th one, year display): year ascending

  • Set user-defined label in output result worksheet with correct date/time format setting.

Above rules will be applied in following tools,

  • Pivot Table

  • Unstack Columns

  • plot_gindexed

  • plot_gboxindexed

  • plot_bygroup