Just Will Not Work

[McGoo]

Hi all

I am trying to write a script that will find a specific date depending on the current month. If it is October, November or December I want the find in the script to the 1st October and the current year. If it is the rest of the year I want it to find 1st October and the previous year.

My script is currently

Enter Find Mode

If(month(Today) >= 10

Set Field(Date Of Leaving,TextToDate("<1/10/" &Year(Today))

Else

Set Field(Date Of Leaving,TextToDate("<1/10/" & Year(Today) - 1)

End If

Perform Find

What am I doing wrong???

Please Help

Thanks

[jonesy17]

I think you're missing some brackets.

After your "else" try:

Set Field(Date Of Leaving,TextToDate("<1/10/" & (Year(Today) - 1))

note the extra brackets around (Year(Today) - 1)

[John Caballero]

Try Insert Calculated Result as opposed to Set Field.

[kenneth2k1]

...And make sure the date field you are calculating is on the current layout when the script executes.

[Vaughan]

... and use Status(CurrentDate) not the TODAY function.

I just noticed the TextToDate() function in there. TextToDate will break if the solution is used on a machine set to a different date format (eg, Australian instead of US). Use Date() instead.

So, putting it all together...

Insert Calculated Result [Date Of Leaving, "<" & DateToText(Date(1, 10, (Year(Status(CurrentDate)) - 1))]

[McGoo]

Thanks everyone I managed to overcome that problem........much appreciated