[AccessD] 3 Dates Questions

[Stuart McLachlan]

I run into this one a lot.  I use 1 Jan if it's year only with a  boolean field IsDOBYear in the 
table with a checkbox on the entry form and use conditional formatting to show either date or 
year.


On 5 Nov 2016 at 16:31, Kathryn Bassett wrote:

> > To your first question: Set the Format property to: dd mmm yyyy.
> 
> When seeing that area, I was thrown by the dropdown box only giving
> some choices. But with what you said, I ignored the choics and put in
> the  dd mmm yyyy. It works on my end, so now I just need to wait until
> my friend sees my email to check it again to see if it worked on her
> end. I'm optimistic.
> 
> > Re 2: Set property CanGrow for the textbox to: Yes
> 
> I knew there was someplace that should show up, just couldn't find it.
> Finally did, so that now works.
> 
> > Re 3: There is no way to do this for a date field.
> > If you only have the year, enter year-1-1. If you have year and
> > month,
> enter
> > year-month-1.
> > You can easily create a Quaker Date formatted string with Format.
> 
> I need clarification for -1-1. Are you giving some way that I can put
> in 1 Jan 1850 and have it suppress the 1 and the Jan? That would work
> as long as it was for just that record, but not if it does it for all
> records. But I definitely don't want it to show up as 1 Jan when the
> date might be mid year.
> 
> > Use the ISO sequence, yyyy-mm-dd, which nowhere can be misread
> 
> It would have to be yyyy mmm dd. 2016 Mar 05 would be ok, but... Some
> people that would ultimately read the report aren't that bright, so 3
> digit month name is mandatory. Is that something set by system or
> specific field in the databse? If by system, then it's the same
> problem I have now.
> 
> And no, Darryl, I'm not using VBA.
> 
> Kathryn
> 
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