I am tracking doctors with liablility insurance expiration dates throughout the calendar and would like to identify those with dates within a chosen month. What is an elegant method of performing this find while selecting the month from a pop up list?

Does the year matter? If not, create a calculation of MonthName(datefield), and perform your search in this field. If your list contains abbreviated month names, then use Left( MonthName(datefield); 3 ).

the year does matter. it would be the current year.

I just created month and year search fields calculated from the expiration date. Then performed a search for the month (selected from a pop up list) AND the year entered from Year(Get(CurrentDate)). The _globalSearchMonth was determined by a previous window where the user selected from a pop up list for _globalSearchMonth.

Enter Find Mode

SetField (MonthSearch, _globalSearchMonth)

SetField (YearSearch, Year(Get(CurrentDate)

Perform Find

It appears to work but is there a cleaner method without creating the calculated month and year calculated fields?

See attached.

ExpirationMonth.zip