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    Posted: 27 Feb 2007 at 3:28pm
I'm a newbie, first report I ever worked on.  I have a text field that has dates entered into it (9/30/2007).  This field needs to be in my where criteria.  I would like to have the user enter a date range and then check this field and return records within this date range.  How do you convert a text value to a date value?
 
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Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 27 Feb 2007 at 7:52pm
To convert a string to a Crystal Report date, use the CDate(field) function. You can find more functions in my free online chapters.
http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/Chapter06_XI.asp
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Quote blkhills Replybullet Posted: 28 Feb 2007 at 9:00am
I appreciate your efforts to help.  I have seen the same information in the help screens of Crystal but since I've never had a Crystal class, never even opened the program until yesterday, I'm at a loss as how to apply the CDate function.  In Crystal "Select  Expert" I have added a tab for the field id_6 which is my text field, used the 'formula' choice and tried CDate{Workstat.ID_6} <="07/01/2007".  Am I approaching this correctly?
 
I should add the fact that the values in the field are already in a date format.  I have also tried the following
If ISDate({Workstat.ID_6}) Then
Formula CDate({WORKSTAT.ID_6}) <= 07/01/2007
EndIf
 
or If ISDate({Workstat.ID_6}) Then
Formula CDate({WORKSTAT.ID_6}) <= "07/01/2007"
EndIf


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Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 28 Feb 2007 at 9:24am
To keep things simple, I would first create an independent formula just to convert the string to a date. It's only code would be:
CDate({WORKSTAT.ID_6})

Then I would use the select expert and pick this formula as the new tab and say that it is less than 07/01/2007. That way you're not trying to do too much at one time. Plus, you should read my free online chapters. They will teach you how to go about creating formulas.



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