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Quote paul_birm Replybullet Topic: Report In Date Ranges
    Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 2:59am
Hi ALL members...
 
I am running CR ver 6, 7 and 9 and need to write a report in ver6 ( LOL ) that pulls some data for specific dates.
 
ie  all sales between 01 Jan 2010 and 31 Jan 2010. 
 
is there a way that i can get my user to input those specific dates....
 
there MUST be somehow...
 
all help appreciated.
 
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Quote razzak Replybullet Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 3:27am
create two date time parameters
go to select expert
e.g
write formula like .
 
({table1.photo_shot_date}>=CDate({?photo shot date from})
and {table1.photo_shot_date}<=CDate({?Photo shot date to})
 
 
this might solve your problem.
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Quote paul_birm Replybullet Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 7:16am
Thanks Razzak
 
I have a formulae:-
 
({salesorders.sdate}>=Cdate({?Report Date From})
and {salesorders.sdate}<=Cdate({Report Date End})
 
and when I Try to save the forumula, i get the CR error
 
"A Number, Currency Amount, Boolean or String is expected Here"
 
any more ideas please?
 
Paul
 
 
 
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Quote jkwrpc Replybullet Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 1:27pm

Could be a data typing issue. I would suggest making sure your parameters have been correctly typed as a date. If you database for some reason has the date as a string then you would need to convert your parameter from a date to a string.

I believe your solution is in matching these correctly.
 
Hope this is of some help
 
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Quote paul_birm Replybullet Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 12:44am
Thanks John
 
my datatype on sdate field on salesorders table is 'datetime' so should be ok ???
 
any other ideas please people...Big%20smile
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Quote paul_birm Replybullet Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 12:55am
ok, to summerise, I am running CR ver 6.
 
I want a report to be run between two dates ( equivlent to a field called sdate in my CR)
 
i hve gone into Select Expert and added a NEW item   so, it reads...
 
Salesorders.sdate    is (1st dropdown)  formula (2nd dropdown) and the formula is thus...
 
({salesorders.sdate}>=Cdate({?Report Date From})
and {salesorders.sdate}<=Cdate({Report Date End})
 
i click on OK and get the error ( no number)   "A Number, currency amount, boolean or string is expected here"
 
i have checked my ERP system datatypes and thy are set to datetime.
 
Please, Please, Please help. I really need this report ....
 
thanks in advance
 
 
 
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 4:58am
Never used 6 so I am guessing here.
In vXI I would bypass the select expert GUI and just use the statement:
{salesorders.sdate} in Cdate({?Report Date From}) to Cdate({?Report Date End})
 
If you still get the error where is the cursor indicating the expected # to be?
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Quote razzak Replybullet Posted: 14 Mar 2010 at 7:43pm
Please remove Cdate() and try
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({salesorders.sdate}>={?Report Date From}
and {salesorders.sdate}<={?Report Date End})
 
try This.
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Quote paul_birm Replybullet Posted: 15 Mar 2010 at 1:01am
thanks Razzak
 
however, when in  select expert gui, go into new and then make salesorders.sodate...is...formula  with the following formula
 
({salesorders.sdate}>={?Report Date From}
and {salesorders.sdate}<={?Report Date End})   (exact copy and paste)  i now get the error ... THis field name is not known
 
the cursor stays where ever i last left it so i cant see WHICH fileld is Not KNOWN...
 
 
CryCryCry getting really fed up with this now..... CryCryCry
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Quote kevlray Replybullet Posted: 15 Mar 2010 at 7:59am
Interesting, so CR cannot find either {salesordes.sdate}, {?Report Date From} or {?Report Date End}.  I would double check the spelling of each of these (especially the parmeters).  I have sometimes had to resort to deleting my parameters and recreating them because I had somehow gotten a 'hidden' character in the name.
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