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Add intelligence to a date field?

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First of all, you guys rock! Fast and friendly feedback on my annoying queries.

Here is another design element (I do actually try to find these answers in my QUE Filemaker 7 book first) that I want to incorporate:

I would like to have a date field that can accept the following and return the calculated date as a result...

t = today's date

+1 = tomorrow's date

+7 = Next week's date

etc...

Any thoughts on a script to do this? Would the field still be a date field?

Thanks!

It won't be able to be a date field since dates are only accepted in standard formats. It would have to be a text field with an auto-enter calculation and 'Do not replace existing value' deselected. You could create a calculated date field of GetAsDate(textfield) and stack it on top of the textfield, setting it to not allow entry in Browse Mode, while the textfield is set to not allow entry in Find Mode. Then you can format the date calculation as you like.

See attached for an example.

IntelliDate.zip

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