Variable: Quarter (of year)

[TGeist]

Among the plethora of useful date variables, can we also have one for the quarter of the year?

In an array of dated folders or files a subdivision into annual quarters can help minimizing the clutter.

Thank you!
Thomas

[Kirk Baker]

Thomas,

Among the plethora of useful date variables, can we also have one for the quarter of the year?

In an array of dated folders or files a subdivision into annual quarters can help minimizing the clutter.

What would be the output of such a variable?  Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4?

-Kirk

[TGeist]

Just the number might be even more flexible. One can always put the Q in front of it: something like Q{quarter}.

This would also be better for other languages that might not have a word starting with a Q for quarter.
I am always pleasantly amazed by PM's power of variables!

[Hayo Baan]

How about creating a code replacement for the month variable that turns it into the quarter? That would allow you to make use of the “quarter” right now

[TGeist]

Interesting!

Now I need to find out how code replacements work ... 

[Kirk Baker]

http://wiki.camerabits.com/en/index.php?title=User_Manual_Flat_View#Code_Replacement

-Kirk

[TGeist]

Concerning the code replacement that would mean that I'd lose the moth variable however.

A string like

{year4}-{quarter}/{year4}-{month0}-{day0}

could not be generated via a code replacement where months are replaced by the respective quarter's number.

[Kirk Baker]

Concerning the code replacement that would mean that I'd lose the moth variable however.

A string like

{year4}-{quarter}/{year4}-{month0}-{day0}

could not be generated via a code replacement where months are replaced by the respective quarter's number.

No.  You're not using Code Replacement in that example.  You've invented a new variable that doesn't exist (it won't output anything).

It needs to be like this:

{year4}-={year4}=/{year4}-{month0}-{day0}

-Kirk

[TGeist]

No.  You're not using Code Replacement in that example.  You've invented a new variable that doesn't exist (it won't output anything).

It needs to be like this:

{year4}-={year4}=/{year4}-{month0}-{day0}

-Kirk

Sorry, I lost track of this for a while.
I actually didn't explain what I meant with the phrase {year4}-{quarter}/{year4}-{month0}-{day0}


I wanted to show my desired result. Something like

2019-Q1/2019-02-16

for today's date would have been the result I'd like to achieve. So of course the variable {quarter} does not exist (yet )

But generally I couldn't find a way to have the varying results from the {month0} variable in the Code column of a code replacement file.
The second column (Replacement column) is easy. It would be
1
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
3
4
4
4
with a tab in front of each value. But what would go in the Code column?
Wouldn't that rather require something like a formula like

IF {month0} is between 1 and 3 THEN the result is 1
IF {month0} is between 4 and 6 THEN the result is 2

and so on.

Code replacement can't do this though, right?

Anyway, thank you for your help so far!!
Thomas

[Hayo Baan]

The first column should simply be the numbers 1 to twelve. To then get the quarter you’d use \{month}\ in eg the iptc stationary pad or info screen (assuming the backslash is your code replacement delimiter).

Does this help the use of code replacements?

[TGeist]

That worked! Thank you!!