Fiscal Month/Year Date Calculations

Question

Hi Gurus,
I am trying to create a fiscal year and fiscal month offset using filter advanced SQL in answers. The “Offset” should allow to define a period of time + or – from a given starting point in order to report on a period of time. For example the Current Month Offset - When the variable is defined and set-up in the “Time” drop down menu in Answers. You would select Current Month Offset and in the create/edit filter dialog the Current Month Offset column contains a value of 0 for the most recent loaded month of data, a value of -1 for the month prior to that and so on. By selecting the “Operator”, “is between” and “Value” -5 and “Value” 0 you would filter to display the last 6 months.
I created the offset with calendar year using the Advanced filter and worked fine for if i need to change the year to what ever value
(((YEAR(CURDATE())-YEAR(Time.Date)) * 12) + (MONTH(CURDATE())-MONTH(Time.Date))) * -1 = -1
The issue comes when i create for Fiscal year and Fiscal month using filter advanced SQL it throws an error
(((FISCAL YEAR(CURDATE())-FISCALYEAR(Time.Date)) * 12) + (FISCAL MONTH(CURDATE())-FISCAL MONTH(Time.Date))) * -1 = -1
for fiscal year it throws an error below
Error getting drill information: SELECT Time."Fiscal Year" saw_0, Time."Fiscal Year" saw_1 FROM "AAFES Procurement - Purchase Orders" WHERE Time."Fiscal Year" = (((FISCAL YEAR(CURDATE())-FISCALYEAR(Time.Date)) * 12) + (FISCAL MONTH(CURDATE())-FISCAL MONTH(Time.Date))) * -1 = -1
Error Details
Error Codes: YQCO4T56:OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC:OI2DL65P
Odbc driver returned an error (SQLExecDirectW).
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 27002] Near <CURDATE>: Syntax error [nQSError: 26012] . (HY000)
SQL Issued: {call NQSGetLevelDrillability('SELECT Time."Fiscal Year" saw_0, Time."Fiscal Year" saw_1 FROM "AAFES Procurement - Purchase Orders" WHERE Time."Fiscal Year" = (((FISCAL YEAR(CURDATE())-FISCALYEAR(Time.Date)) * 12) + (FISCAL MONTH(CURDATE())-FISCAL MONTH(Time.Date))) * -1 = -1')}
Thanks
Simmz

Answer 1

Hi,
Kindly refer the below link it may help you.
http://obieeelegant.blogspot.com/2011/06/obiee-date-expressions-reference.html
Thanks
Deva