Converting Date to text gives unknown numbers?

[CamMac2]

I have 2 date fields and a notes field that I have to combine with no slashes or dashes or othe marks (for export into another program)

This is the format I need to export:

mmddyy mmddyy note

This is my calculation field

Action Date & " " & FollowUp Date & " " & Action Notes

This is how the field should look:

020904 021004 client seems to think there is no budget

but this is the result I get

731620 731720 client seems to think there is no budget

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I'm guessing that a date format uses some underlying numerical calculation, because I get a similar result in Excel if I change a "date" format to a Text format.

I've tried DateToText, but I still have slashes (and no leading zeroes). If I import into Excel to "find and replace" the slashes, the "dates" changes to that underlying number code.

Any ideas? It seemed like an easy problem, and would be, I guess, if the "date" format wasn't just a mask over other numbers.

Thanks in advance

Cheri

[CamMac2]

I have 2 date fields and a notes field that I have to combine with no slashes or dashes or othe marks (for export into another program)

This is the format I need to export:

mmddyy mmddyy note

This is my calculation field

Action Date & " " & FollowUp Date & " " & Action Notes

This is how the field should look:

020904 021004 client seems to think there is no budget

but this is the result I get

731620 731720 client seems to think there is no budget

--------

I'm guessing that a date format uses some underlying numerical calculation, because I get a similar result in Excel if I change a "date" format to a Text format.

I've tried DateToText, but I still have slashes (and no leading zeroes). If I import into Excel to "find and replace" the slashes, the "dates" changes to that underlying number code.

Any ideas? It seemed like an easy problem, and would be, I guess, if the "date" format wasn't just a mask over other numbers.

Thanks in advance

Cheri

[spb]

Dealing with converting dates to text can be vexing. I would suggest making two calculation fields (result text) for your two dates. For Action Date:

Case (Month [Action Date] < 10, "0" & NumToText [Month [Action Date]], NumToText [Month [Action Date]]) &

Case (Day [Action Date] < 10, "0" & NumToText [Day [Action Date]], NumToText [Day [Action Date]]) &

Right [NumToText [Year [Action Date]], 2]

The Month, Day & Year functions return numbers. The calc tests to see if they are single digit numbers, and adds a leading zero if so. It also converts them all from numbers to text. This is off the top of my head, so I hope I have the right numbner of open & close brackets.

Call this ActionDateCalc. Make a similar field for FollowUpDate. Stick both calcc fields off on an All Fields layout where they don't need to be seen. Alter your concatenation above to;

ActionDateCalc & " " & FollowUpDateCalc & " " & Action Notes

That should do it.

Steve Brown

[spb]

Dealing with converting dates to text can be vexing. I would suggest making two calculation fields (result text) for your two dates. For Action Date:

Case (Month [Action Date] < 10, "0" & NumToText [Month [Action Date]], NumToText [Month [Action Date]]) &

Case (Day [Action Date] < 10, "0" & NumToText [Day [Action Date]], NumToText [Day [Action Date]]) &

Right [NumToText [Year [Action Date]], 2]

The Month, Day & Year functions return numbers. The calc tests to see if they are single digit numbers, and adds a leading zero if so. It also converts them all from numbers to text. This is off the top of my head, so I hope I have the right numbner of open & close brackets.

Call this ActionDateCalc. Make a similar field for FollowUpDate. Stick both calcc fields off on an All Fields layout where they don't need to be seen. Alter your concatenation above to;

ActionDateCalc & " " & FollowUpDateCalc & " " & Action Notes

That should do it.

Steve Brown

[CamMac2]

Thank You - I was going to drop in the calculations for leading zeroes and the 2-digit year AFTER I solved the problem of turning a date into text - I didn't realize that the calculations themselves would solve the problem!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer!

Cheri