Criteria help

[jcaptchaos2]

Have a query where I'm asking the person to enter a date that will pull data from a table for the date requested, my problem is the data in the table is stored like this. "4/14/2011 4:44:40 PM" when you look in the table it is formatted as Short Date so it looks ok but for the query criteria to work the person would have to type in "4/14/2011 4:44:40 PM" and really all I want then to have to type is "4/14" What can I do to correct this?

 

[boblarson]

In the query create a new field -

DateOnly:DateValue([OriginalDateFieldNameHere])


and then put the criteria on it instead of the original date field.

(personally I hate parameter prompts - I would have it so that they can use a form for input - then you can also make sure it is formatted correctly before they run the query and have problems).

Read this for more reasons why to avoid them:
http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=6763

 

[jcaptchaos2]

Ok thanks I will give it a try, the date field is using the =now() formula so it pulls the current date.

 

[boblarson]

For dates only, use

=Date()

instead of

=Now()

 

[jcaptchaos2]

Thanks Bob that worked perfect