Show or Count info depending on the month on SharePoint

Question

I have a a custom list that contain several columns with data (numbers). One of the column cotains the Month Name in which the data was entered and another hiden column with the Month Number. In this list I have another column named Pending Cases. his clumn
only show the informaion of the previous months and nothing else. For example if you had 2 pending cases in November and 2 in December. When creating a report in January, only what was pendng n December maters, because older than that have been solved, or
are not pending anymore.
In order to show the data I created a web part showing a table. This table was working beautifully until January. And this s why:
In order to filter the data the way I wanted to I created a variable called PMonth (for Previous month), which would get the month from the current date:
<xsl:variable name="PMonth" select="(ddwrt:FormatDateTime(string($Today),1033,'MM') -1)"></xsl:variable>
Then I created a Total column where I would show only the data from the previous month:
<xsl:value-of select="sum($Rows[@Month_Number= $PMonth]/@Pending_x0020_Previous_x0020_Yea)"/>
This would compare the Month_Number column with PMonth, and only would show when True.
Again, this worked perfectly until now that January is month numnber "1". When I get the current month using ddwrt:FormatDateTime... as previously shown for PMonth, I get a negative number or "zero" when the current month is January
or February; therefore sum($Rows[@Month_Number= $PMonth]/@Pending_x0020_Previous_x0020_Yea)" would never happen the first months of the year, because it is out of the scope (1 - 12). I been trying to find a way to solve this issue, but no luck so ar.
I would appfreciate any suggestion using XSLT or jQuery. Thanks in advance.
EM

Answer 1

hi
the issue is caused by month numbering
create a new calculaated column in your list, which will be used in your forumla
this calulcated column =
 12 if [Month Number]=1, otherwise
=[Month Number]-1
Romeo Donca, Orange Romania (MCSE, MCITP, CCNA) Please Mark As Answer if my post solves your problem or Vote As Helpful if the post has been helpful for you.