How can i get the name of the past month?

RE: How can i get the name of the past month?

skk3042 — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:52:28 GMT

text(
a!subtractDateTime( startDateTime: today(), months: 1),
"mmmm"
)

RE: How can i get the name of the past month?

Mario Vargas — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 19:56:58 GMT

Thanks a lot!

RE: How can i get the name of the past month?

Mario Vargas — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 19:56:49 GMT

Thanks a lot!

RE: How can i get the name of the past month?

ujjwalr0002 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 19:18:34 GMT

Hi we can use eomonth() function

text(
  eomonth(
    now(),
    -1
  ),
  "MMMM"
)

RE: How can i get the name of the past month?

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 19:17:48 GMT

Months are admittedly a little tricky to deal with using strictly OOB functionality.

If you have the Date and Time Utilities plug-in installed (which there's no reason not to, IMHO), you could utilize the "subtractmonths()" function.

text(subtractmonths(now(), 1), "MMMM")

Edit: Ujjwal gives a good solution below ⬇, using the OOB function "eomonth()". An additional OOB-only approach would be to just use the month() function to get the month # you want, assemble a fake "date value" using that, and use that to produce the text() output desired:
(edit2: this works fine for months other than January, so a manual check would need to be added to check for "0", though if anyone has a code-minimal trick for this then i'm curious! i guess it's a good reason to use "subtractMonths()" or "eoMonth()" though.)