Hi all,

I'm trying to write a small script that checks if the content of a Date Field has a value that is two days over.

Erm example

Three records... and today's date is 12/4/03

12/2/03

12/6/03

12/4/03

I would want my script's If statement to accept 12/2/03. I hope that make sense, because I'm feeling quite funky today.

Cheers,

Steve Griff

Hi Steve,

Here is the solution,

Go to record [First]

Loop

If[Today-2 = Date]

set field["result", "Date"]

End if

Go to record [Exit after last, Next]

End Loop

Regards,

Henry

You can also just have an extra calculation field that would do the same thing and would be fast and searchable.

cIsDue Number field): MyDate + 2 = status(currentDate)

will return true, a '1' when the date is too days old.

Charles

Don't use the TODAY function Henry!

Oh, ya, thanks for advice. Status(currentdate) is the right function to get the date.

Regards,

Henry

Hi:

I suggest using a find script. That way the loop doesn't have to initially loop through all the records in the db which could take a while.

Rather than explain the whole thing, I whipped up this file in a couple of minutes to give an example.

It is a real simple file. Once you do the find script, your script can then do the loop stuff since the found set will be smaller than the total, and the loop won't take so much time.

Ken

PS!! I misread your post. Sorry. My script is greater than or equal to today - 2. But you said just two days ago. Just change the "<=" to "=" in the script and it should be fine.

Find Example.zip