Name of the month by date [Formula]

[Mikko_Mantere]

Hey,

Is there a formula that pics the name of the month by date. We have built a system where we manage our project invoicing. We send our customers an invoice on a monthly basis based on the work completed, but we try to forecast the billing months by recording the assumed billing month for the project part. So, Airtable should understand that the (billing) month is a date field (billing predictability), but the option value should be the name of the month

Thanks

Mikko

[kuovonne]

To convert a date to a month name, use the DATETIME_FORMAT() function with the MMMM format specifier.

DATETIME_FORMAT({date}, 'MMMM')

[Sebastien1]

Hi @kuovonne, thanks for your reply :slightly_smiling_face:
Do you know how I could add the year, after your fomula with the month ?

So I could convert : 2021-05-11
To May 2021 for exemple

Thanks ! :slightly_smiling_face:

[kuovonne]

Sebastien1:

So I could convert : 2021-05-11
To May 2021 for exemple

You can include the format specifier for the year.

DATETIME_FORMAT({date}, 'MMMM YYYY')

[Sebastien1]

Sorry for the late reply, I missed it ! Thanks for your reply ! :slightly_smiling_face:

By chance, maybe you could help me with another little issue :

When I use this formula and group my row by date (with the month and year), Airtable sort the date in alphabetical order, and not Chronologic order.

Do you know if there is a way to sort by chronologic order, to have :
January 2019
February 2019
…
January 2020

Thanks !

[Jordan_Agnew]

Im interested to know also

[Max_Ov]

Hi,
I ran into the same issue, so I concatened the month number with the month:
DATETIME_FORMAT({Date}, ‘MM MMMM’)

[Meagan_Caesar]

Thank you so much for answering this question! Just wondering what I would add to this formula to leave it blank if there’s no date selected, rather than returning an #ERROR? Thank you

[kuovonne]

IF(
  {date},
  DATETIME_FORMAT({date}, 'MMMM YYYY')
)

[Meagan_Caesar]

Thank you! Really appreciate your quick help :slightly_smiling_face: