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[Sovello Hildebrand Mgani <sovellohpmgani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Knut for the pointer.
I had thought of this but then there came the challenge: these variables
can be changed anytime from financial to calendar year from monthly to
quarterly and that's why I though I may need a more dynamic way of fetching
the descriptive period.

Cheers

On Mar 30, 2017 16:39, "Knut Staring" <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I suppose you would have to parse 2015Oct with Javascript and then
> transform it to your desired output.
>
> Knut
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Sovello Hildebrand Mgani <
> sovellohpmgani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> I have created a report which uses a relative reporting period.
>> From the api description, I get the period from dhis2.report.periods[0]
>> which gives me a period identifier, like 2015Oct (for financial year
>> October 2015 - September 2016).
>> I want to be able to display the descriptive period name on the report
>> like *Data Approval Status for Period October 2015 to September 2016, *how
>> I achieve that because currently I can only display the period identifier
>> like 2015Oct?
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
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>> :: Sovello Hildebrand Mgani ::
>>
>>
>>
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