Hi all - hope you can help.

I'm creating a report in which I want the first step to be to perform a find on a date field to find all dates in the last 30 days. How do I set a find criteria that is effectively 'today...today-30'?

Thanks!

Set Field [dateField; "≥" & Get(CurrentDate) - 30]

Thanks for this - but I can't see how to apply it... Do I create one script step to set the field, then another to perform the find? Every way I've tried to enter this, FM throws up an error... sorry to be dumb, but can you explain how to create the script in FM7 or 8 in a bit more detail?

Many thanks!

Sure.

Allow User Abort [Off]

Set Error Capture [On]

Enter Find Mode [ ]

Set Field [dateField; "≥" & Get(CurrentDate) - 30] {first parameter is target field; second is calculation}

Perform Find []

If [not Get(FoundCount)]

Modify Last Find

Show Custom Dialog ["No records were found for the given date range."]

Show All Records

End If

Perhaps,

  SetField[ dateField, ">=" & GetAsDate( Get(CurrentDate) - 30 )]

will work better?

I assume you meant GetAsText, since it is already a date. However, 7 auto-converts the expression, so GetAsText is superfluous.