Query to display multiple months based on start/end date

Question

I am looking for the query for a calculated value based on start and end dates to display month, multiple months spanned.
For example....

Start date: 01/01/17
End date: 04/15/17

Calculated Value displays: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr

I've tried this...

=IF([Start Date]="","",""&MONTH([Start Date])

but it only displays the first month (in numeric format) - "1"

I can live with the numeric format for the month, but would be better for the internal stakeholders if it actually provided the month name.

Answer 1

Query for a calculated value based on start and end dates that will display that displays multiple months spanned.

For example.... Start date: 01/01/17 End date: 04/15/17
Calculated Value displays: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr

=LEFT(RIGHT("Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec,Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec,",96-(MONTH(StartDate)-1)*4),(DATEDIF(StartDate,EndDate,"ym")+1)*4-1)

Answer 2

This is what you are looking for:

=TEXT([Start Date],"mmmm")

Answer 3

It is good you asked on a Friday (don't tell anyone!)

I got myself a beer (20:30 here in 🌷🌷🌷 Amsterdam)

and played around with my (private) CalcMaster tool

First challenge is year roll-over, November to April should list:

Nov,Dec,Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr

So after trying a Formula with Mike's TEXT() suggestion I switched to a long text string of months and then some calculations, to extract a substring

Your single Formula 'MonthSpan' is:

=LEFT(RIGHT("Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec,Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec",LEN("Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec,Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec")-(MONTH(StartDate)-1)*4),MONTH(EndDate-StartDate)+1*4-1)

Since the string is a fixed length (24 months) = 24 * 4 - 1 comma = 95

=LEFT(
  RIGHT("Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec,Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec"
        ,95 -  (MONTH(StartDate)-1) * 4
       )
  ,MONTH(EndDate-StartDate) + 3
)

How I got there:

You can use the above Formula, this is just to show the steps with multiple Columns I used

Merging multiple columns into a single end-result