AddQuarters

Returns the UTC date and time for the quarter that is the number of quarters specified earlier than or later than the specified date and time.

Syntax

AddQuarters(numQuarters, baseDateTime)

Enabled for

Search/Dashboard	Yes
Business Rules	Yes
Quick Actions	Yes
Workflow Objects	No
Reports	No

Parameters

numQuarters	The number of intervals. If not specified, uses the default interval which is 0. Can be either a positive integer, to indicate quarters in the future, or a negative integer, to indicate quarters in the past.
baseDateTime	(Optional) The base date for the function. If not specified, uses the default date which is the current date and time.

Returns

DateTime value in UTC time.

If the system has to display the return value, it implicitly converts it to text, thereby allowing the display format to change depending on your culture code. See Available Languages and Cultures for a list of the culture codes used by HEAT.

If the return value would not be a valid date, the function returns the last day of the month. For example, in the following function: $(AddMonths(4, mydate)), if the value of mydate is October 31, 2014, this function would have returned February 31, 2015, but because that is not a valid date, the function returns February 28, 2015 because that is the last day of the month.

Example

$(AddQuarters(-3))

If today is April 10, 2014, this function returns the DateTime value for 9 months ago (three quarters and each quarter is three months) which is July 10, 2013.

$(AddQuarters(1))

If today is April 10, 2014, this function returns the DateTime value for July 10, 2014 at the same time of day.

$(AddQuarters(2, mydate))

If the value of mydate is April 10, 2014, this function returns the DateTime value for October 10, 2014 at the same time of day.