Change Month

[Greg G]

I am putting together a simple calendar and i'm having trouble scripting a button to advance my global master date field to the first day of the next month. This field will only have the date of the first of any given month.

My first idea was the following script using another field "gMain Month" that is a calc to give me the month name based on the "gMain Date" field:

If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "January" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 31 ; If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "February" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 28 ;If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "March" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 31 ; If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "April" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 30 ; If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "May" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 31 ; If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "June" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 30 ; If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "July" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 31 ; If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "August" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 31 ; If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "September" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 30 ; If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "October" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 31 ; If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "November" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 30 ; If ( Calendar::gMain Month = "December" ; Calendar::gMain Date + 31 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ))

Edited March 8, 2007 by Guest

[comment]

Try:

Set Field [ gMainDate ; Date ( Month ( gMainDate ) + 1 ; 1 ; Year ( gMainDate ) ) ]

[Greg G]

Works great...Thanks

Why is it necessary to have the words "month" and "year" in the calc? I always thought you should replace that stuff with the actual data or fields the calc is looking for but when I remove them it does not work.

[mr_vodka]

Greg,

Those are Functions.

Date ()

Month()

Year()