merlin wrote:
thanx but doesn't that complicate things? the thing is that for some of
the things i want to record (ie. onset of episodes) there are no
specific dates (ie. 10/01/05 )
It would still be best to record the year as well. You can always use
month() and year() functions to get that sort of thing.
Now, if you want to just enter month/day or whatever, here is a function
I use frequently, developed in A97. If you use this in a later version
of Access, drop the @@ in the msgbox text. I use this in the after
update event of a text box, allowing me to enter enter a single number,
which the function interprets as a day of the current month/year, or a
month/year which the function interprets as the current year. If you're
ambitious, you can fiddle around with text values and use it in a before
update event, but after update works for me. References to "FM EPS" are
to a specific app I pulled this from.
Please watch the wrap, I'm just plopping this down into this message:
Function fGetDate(txtDat e As Access.TextBox) As Boolean
'Used to get proper date format in the after update event. Must be used
with a text box
Dim strGetDateMessa ge As String
Dim strGetDateError As String
Dim dteDate As Date
Dim strDate As String
On Error GoTo Err_Proc
strDate = txtDate
If IsNumeric(strDa te) Then 'if only numbers, then insert slash
Select Case Len(strDate)
Case 1, 2 'if numeric and only one or two, interpet as day
strDate = Month(Date) & "/" & strDate & "/" & Year(Date)
Case 3, 4 'at least two numbers, then interpret first two
as month, after as day
strDate = Mid(strDate, 1, 2) & "/" & Mid(strDate, 3) &
"/" & Year(Date)
Case Else
strDate = Mid(strDate, 1, 2) & "/" & Mid(strDate, 3, 2)
& "/" & Mid(strDate, 5)
End Select
End If
'strDate = DateValue(strDa te) 'cdate could also be used
'if the above works, then everything is fine otherwise error 13
txtDate = DateValue(strDa te) 'this will raise an error 2115 if it
doesn't work
fGetDate = True
Exit_Proc:
Exit Function
Err_Proc:
Select Case Err.Number
Case 13
strGetDateError = "Date entered improperly @@" & _
"There are a number of formats you may use:" & vbCrLf
& vbCrLf & _
"1. Numbers and slashes, eg, MM/DD/YY (or YYYY),
M/D/YY" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
"2. Name of a month (3 or more letters) day, year (in
any order) with spaces or commas between" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
" eg, 12 Apr 1999, Apr 2000 12, April 1, 99,
etc" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
"(for 1 & 2, if the year is left out, the current year
will be assumed)" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
"3. Numbers with no delimiters:" & vbCrLf & _
"* 1 or 2 numbers is day (current month & year added
by FM EPS)" & vbCrLf & _
"* 3 or 4 numbers is month/day (current year added by
FM EPS)" & vbCrLf & _
"* 5 to 8 numbers will be interpeted as month/day/year."
strGetDateMessa ge = MsgBox(strGetDa teError, 0 + 64,
"Improper Date Format")
txtDate = Null
fGetDate = False
GoTo Exit_Proc
End Select
End Function
--
Tim
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