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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Need one function</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/user-interface/13010/need-one-function</link><description>Hi Team, 
 
 I want to create one expression rule which will return me number of months and quarter on basis of input. 
 Like if I JUN as month and period is 4 than rule should return MAR,APR,MAY,JUN,Q1,Q2 
 
 FEB is month and period is 4 than it should</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Need one function</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/58548?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:22:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:cd533a61-2a59-4edd-a912-044b3f867621</guid><dc:creator>yeswanththiyarir</dc:creator><description>Great piece of code. This should work.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Need one function</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/58501?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:59:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:9cccca5a-e6a2-4f26-ac5a-fee582a213bd</guid><dc:creator>ravalik</dc:creator><description>Hi &lt;a href="/members/sauravk"&gt;sauravk&lt;/a&gt; ,&lt;br /&gt;
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This might be helpful.please find the below link.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/18.2/Appian_Functions.html"&gt;docs.appian.com/.../Appian_Functions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Need one function</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/58500?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:49:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:8cee720a-493b-4224-9ac7-63adac23491f</guid><dc:creator>sauravk</dc:creator><description>Thanks&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Need one function</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/58498?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:10:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:3cbd2d43-a9fe-4072-9dad-796b4fb8d677</guid><dc:creator>chandhinir</dc:creator><description>You can find all available functions in the below link:&lt;br /&gt;
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Ldrop,rdrop will be under array functions.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Need one function</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/58496?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:04:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:ad7c822f-b238-4f57-9bcc-47b495f2417b</guid><dc:creator>sauravk</dc:creator><description>One more thing functions which you used like ldrop,rdrop , from where i can see the list of these tricky functions.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Need one function</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/58495?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:00:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:67045d81-54da-4e08-b380-522374c7c8d1</guid><dc:creator>sauravk</dc:creator><description>Thank U so much for this. Really helped me a lot. It would be nice if you can explain me just by one liner if i pass &amp;quot;JUN&amp;quot; and period is 5. Result is coming perfect. But code is bit complex for understanding.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Need one function</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/58488?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 05:49:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b938dd7d-feda-4323-a85c-1c2ceaea9459</guid><dc:creator>Edwin Yesa Thangappan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp; &lt;a class="internal-link view-user-profile" href="/members/sauravk"&gt;sauravk&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is the code for the function.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;load(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; local&lt;/span&gt;!months&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;: {&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;JAN&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;FEB&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;MAR&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;APR&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;MAY&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;JUN&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;JUL&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;AUG&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;SEP&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;OCT&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;NOV&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;DEC&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; },&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; local!quarter: {&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Q1&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Q2&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Q3&amp;quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Q4&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; },&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; /* To calculate the actual period */&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; local!period: if(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ri!period - wherecontains(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ri!month,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!months&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ) &amp;gt; 0,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ri!period - (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ri!period - wherecontains(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ri!month,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!months&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ri!period&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; ),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; local!temp1: ldrop(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!months,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; wherecontains(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ri!month,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!months&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ) - local!period&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; ),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; local!temp2: rdrop(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!temp1,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; length(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!temp1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ) - wherecontains(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ri!month,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!temp1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; ),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; append(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!temp2,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; index(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!quarter,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; union(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; roundup(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; wherecontains(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!temp2,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; local!months&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ) / 3,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; todecimal(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; {}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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