How do we get a descriptive Reporting Period from period identifier?

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Hi!

I have created a report which uses a relative reporting period.

From the api description, I get the period from dhis2.report.periods[0] which gives me a period identifier, like 2015Oct (for financial year October 2015 - September 2016).

I want to be able to display the descriptive period name on the report like Data Approval Status for Period October 2015 to September 2016, how I achieve that because currently I can only display the period identifier like 2015Oct?

Thank you in advance!

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:: Sovello Hildebrand Mgani ::

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I suppose you would have to parse 2015Oct with Javascript and then transform it to your desired output.

Knut

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Sovello Hildebrand Mgani sovellohpmgani@gmail.com wrote:

Hi!

I have created a report which uses a relative reporting period.

From the api description, I get the period from dhis2.report.periods[0] which gives me a period identifier, like 2015Oct (for financial year October 2015 - September 2016).

I want to be able to display the descriptive period name on the report like Data Approval Status for Period October 2015 to September 2016, how I achieve that because currently I can only display the period identifier like 2015Oct?

Thank you in advance!

:: Sovello Hildebrand Mgani ::

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Thanks Knut for the pointer.
I had thought of this but then there came the challenge: these variables can be changed anytime from financial to calendar year from monthly to quarterly and that’s why I though I may need a more dynamic way of fetching the descriptive period.

Cheers

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On Mar 30, 2017 16:39, “Knut Staring” knutst@gmail.com wrote:

I suppose you would have to parse 2015Oct with Javascript and then transform it to your desired output.

Knut

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Sovello Hildebrand Mgani sovellohpmgani@gmail.com wrote:

Hi!

I have created a report which uses a relative reporting period.

From the api description, I get the period from dhis2.report.periods[0] which gives me a period identifier, like 2015Oct (for financial year October 2015 - September 2016).

I want to be able to display the descriptive period name on the report like Data Approval Status for Period October 2015 to September 2016, how I achieve that because currently I can only display the period identifier like 2015Oct?

Thank you in advance!

:: Sovello Hildebrand Mgani ::

–If you teach man to fish, you’ll feed him a lifetime–

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