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    Posted: 17 May 2007 at 12:19pm
I am running CR X and Access 2003 database.

I have a table defined as Employee and one of the fields is called RESDate and is defined as Date/Time.

The RESDate has a default value Date () - 1. Bascially, I am deriving yesterday's date. When I view the table in Access, I see yesterday's date in the field.

Now in CR X:
I made a new connection and brought in this Access database and this one table. I moved the RESDate to detail line.

I do not see yesterday's date in CR. I did browse of the field in CR X and it shows blanks also. Any ideas ?
 
P.S.: I know in CR you can do DateAdd('d', -1, CurrentDate).  But I want to pull the date from the table. 

Thanks for your help in advance.

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Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 17 May 2007 at 12:49pm
How are you creating the date in Access? Do you have a query and the date calculation is part of the query? Or are you doing it some other way? If it's part of the query definitiion then I would think that CR has to see it and get its value. But maybe you have another method?
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Quote LB100 Replybullet Posted: 17 May 2007 at 12:57pm
 
I was manually editing this table everyday and keying the date.  When I manually key the date, CR X works fine.   
 
So, I thought I would automate this process and use the Date () -1 in default value to derive at yesterday's date.
 
So, when I view the table in access, I see yesterday's date properly.
 
On CR X, it is not coming accross when I use Date () - 1.
 
Thanks and apprecite your 1st reply.
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Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 17 May 2007 at 1:28pm
I'm still missing something. How are you getting the date into Access again? Where are you putting the formula? You mention a table, but tables can't have formulas in them. You can put formulas in a query but it doesn't sound like you are using queries. 
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Quote LB100 Replybullet Posted: 17 May 2007 at 2:17pm
 
Under Access, Under Design Mode, create a new dummy attribute with Date/Time as Data Type. 
 
You will see at the bottom Field Properties. 
 
Under Field Properties, Under General, you will see Data Value.  Under Data Value is where I have "Date () - 1".
 
Once again, thank you for your time. 
 
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Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 17 May 2007 at 4:39pm
Hmm. I guess this is like the SQL default value. Don't know why it wouldn't work. Try this: Create a query that pulls all the fields over. But for the date put he formula in the query instead. I bet that works.
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