So I have a couple tables that I want to filter on their Date/Time fields. Here's a snapshot of the form controls that I'm experimenting with.
This will report will probably end up run on a monthly basis, and so the filter "Between Forms!Sorting!OldestDate and Forms!Sorting!NewestDate" will normally work fine. However, sometimes it's useful to just run it on a single day, as in the picture, in which case I need the filter to work out to "Between #M/D/YYYY 0:00:00# and #M/D/YYYY 23:59:59#". Setting up the format on the controls to actually record the time as well as the date, however, has not been working out.
I thought, first, maybe the time wasn't displaying bc my text boxes were too small, so I tried adding the bottom text box. The display in the snapshot is what I desire, however, if I click out of the text box the date disappears and only the time is displayed. It also does not display any time at all until I go in and manually add a time.
Is there a way to force the display of both the short date and the long time? Or is there a way to, say, set the default TimeValue for NewestDate to 23:59:59?
Right now the only "solution" I might have is CVDate(CDbl(Forms!Sorting!NewestDate)+0.99999) appearing multiple times in my WHERE clause, which will make things harder to keep track of or catch mistakes in.
I have vba experience, though I've never tried to use it to mask/edit a form parameter as it is passed to a query. I am using Access through MS Office Professional Plus 2019.
First, in your query, specify as parameters:
[Forms]![Sorting]![OldestDate] DateTime,
[Forms]![Sorting]![NewestDate] DateTime;
Then you can filter on:
[YourDateField] >= [Forms]![Sorting]![OldestDate] And [YourDateField] < DateAdd("d", [Forms]![Sorting]![NewestDate])
If [YourDateField] is text, change that to DateTime. If that is not possible (it should be), use:
DateValue([YourDateField])
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I have 2 reports here that are machine schedules (Wrap & Moulder). They were working great, until I tried to add a checkbox to say whether or not the previous step had been marked completed. It worked initially on Wrap Schedule but when I did the exact same thing on Moulder Schedule it is coming out as data type mismatches. In the checkbox I have put the expression:
=IsDate([Previous_Date_Ran])
It works great on Wrap Schedule, but as soon as a Date is entered in the [Previous_Date_Ran] field I am getting data type mismatches. I have narrowed it down to whenever a date is put into that field, which is odd because when it is Null there is no issue. I have made sure already that my other form that supplies this [Previous_Date_Ran] field is inserting =Date() and not =Now() or =Time(). Below will be screenshots of it working on Wrap but erroring on Moulder.
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Thank you if you have suffered through with me so far, any help would be much appreciated!
For anyone still struggling here is the steps I took to fix this problem:
Firstly, I have the field Date_Ran as a Date/Time, formatted to short date. Another form has an on-dbl-click event where it inserts today's date in the field. Turns out when you use =Date() in VBA is assigns it a default Variant type. For whatever reason I believe this was what caused the error. The second I switched to using =Date$() it inserts today's date as a string and the error has stopped. Good luck!
This is specifically for MS-Access Web Databases (requires Sharepoint hosting) which has many limitations compared to their client counterparts, like no VBA, instead you get form macros and data macros to manage data.
I've run into a weird bug on one of my applications. I have a query used to check stock levels against a "minimum stock level" also saved in the table. The query is pretty intense and there are over 4,000 records now to check against. These querys normally take about 75s. So I have made a little label that gets updated every time the form is loaded showing the time and date the query was last run, and the duration in seconds it took. (so users can see how fresh the data is and decide if it needs to be run again)
Now, the weird thing is it works fine in my Access client, but when I sync my changes to the server and try it in a web browser I get a "type mismatch" error. A small table is used to store the start and end times whenever the query is run, that's how I get the timestamp data. These fields are in a "Date/Time" format, obviously. But it seems the problem here is changing the date format to a string format so it can be put in a label on the form. The Access client seems perfectly capable of doing this, while the web client stumbles and falls.
My problem is, how do I change data in a date/time format to a string format in a Web database? I can't figure out how to do this. The tools are so limited. I may have to end up answering my own question here but I'm posting this for others just in case.
To return a value from a data macro as string, you have to format the internal date/time format as a string. In Access an internal date/time value is a double number with the integer part as number of days since 1900, and the “decimal” time part is a fraction of 24 hours. Unfortunately if you simply wrap the date/time in the str$() function we had for 20+ years, then you get something JUST like if you type this into the debug window:
? cdbl(now())
41955.5478587963
The solution is to simply pull out each part. And “nice” is while in few cases a data macro will cast the data type, it does in this case and thus the STR$() command is not required.
The expression you thus can use is this:
Month([d]) & "/" & Day([d]) & " Time = " & Hour([d]) & ":" & Minute([d])
So say to pluck out the VERY LAST start time column from say a invoice table, since we don’t have a dmax(), then we simply sort the table in the order we want and pull out the first row.
Our data macro will thus look like:
Note how in above I simply typed in the SQL and SET the order on the date/time column. I want the MOST recent invoice start date and time. For those new to SQL, then I suggest you build a query in the query builder and specify a query in above lookup feature, since many are not "comfortable" typing in free hand SQL as I did above.
Now, in your browser side (UI) macro, you can use this code:
The above returns a formatted string that you can stuff into a text box, or as per above code change the caption of a label.
Unfortunately with silly problems like this, it becomes a path-of-least resistance thing.
Since my intended result was simply to get "a timedatestamp from a table to show up on a form (so users could see when a query was last run)", this became redesigning my form in Access to be a text field instead of a label. Text fields can be adjusted to accept "Time/Date" formats, so this is exactly what I did, it now pulls the timestamp data directly from the last record of the table and requires no extra formatting to appear in the web browser. I redesigned the text field to appear and function more like a label, and my desired function was achieved.
However, since my question specifically asks, "how do you change a time/date format into a string format in a Web db?", I will leave it here in case someone actually does solve it.
My data and this SSRS chart have a ton of problems, I'll try to keep my question(s) succinct.
First, as you can see by this chart and this screenshot of my data (just showing date and April Savings), my expression/chart is not summing all of the savings within a month, which is my goal.
It appears to be picking one amount within the correct month and using it. I set up a tool tip for April so I could see what number it's pulling (since clearly the chart columns are not representing the data whatsoever - another issue).
You'll see in the SQL data screenshot that it does indeed pull $1,230 from the April 2013 Savings. How can I get this to Sum within the month AND still do a running value from the beginning of time data began to current, this often will include multiple years.
Here's my Chart Data (note that my Team Goal works perfectly, and is even charted correctly - but if anyone knows how to force that line to go from end to end on my chart, feel free to let me know.) :
To summarize, how can I sum each month's data, while still do a running value across the months AND years?
Here's my Expression for Implementable Savings:
=RunningValue(Sum(Fields!ImplementableSavings.Value), Sum, nothing)
(obviously if I can get one working, I can get both)
My Expression for ImplementedSavingsMonth:
=MonthName(Month(Fields!ImplementedSavingsDate.Value))
My Expression for ImplementedSavingsYear:
=Year(Fields!ImplementedSavingsDate.Value)
Let me know if there's anything else I can provide.
Quick sidebar question: WHY does my chart column collect one piece of data. IE: see the tool tip $1,230 for April 2013), but the chart column displays that the number is around $1.7M? And in this scenario, both of my blue and yellow columns are displaying the same number, so why does blue always appear to be a higher number? I will ask this as a 2nd question if it's inappropriate for me to ask here.
I would use this Expression for Implementable Savings:
= RunningValue ( Fields!ImplementableSavings.Value, Sum, "Chart1")
.. assuming your Chart's name is Chart1.
My access report is showing ##### instead of showing the datetime value in the row. When I clicks on it the ##### turn outs to the actual date as if it was hidden behind it. I have tried changing the date format to Long Date Medium Date and Short Date in both the related table as well as in the report's Format properties but is it not working at all.
Why is it so?
The problem you have can be because there's no enough space in the textbox (or other control) to display the value you need.
You can solve this by either increasing the size of the control or decreasing the size of the font you are using.
An alternative can be to convert the value you want to display into a string. Since you are dealing with dates, I sugest you use the format$() function. For example:
=format$([yourDateField],'yyyy-mm-dd')
will return a date in the year-month-day format. Check the online help to know more about this function.
Hope this helps you
I have searched everywhere for this and tried different criteria but for whatever reason the form which has a control box set to open a report which is based upon a query will not pull the data within the date range. Instead keep getting enter parameter value dialogue box.
The criteria in the query is stated as Between [Forms]![Form1].[StartDt] And [Forms]![Form1].[EndDt]
The form has two date inputs StartDt and EndDt and is pointed to open the report. Without the above criteria in the query the form opens the report and produces all the dates. So at least it allows me to enter dates and is connected to the query and report but without the criteria fails to isolate data within the required range.
When I place into the query containing the criteria (as above) under the appointment date field all im getting are two parameter value dialogue boxes one after the other displaying Forms!Form1.StartDt and the second, Forms!Form1.EndDt.
Apologies for being long winded but am desperate to solve this issue am new to access.
Thanks to everyone for any input.
Iain
It seems you have an error in your names. One of the easiest ways to check form names is to use the immediate window. Type ctrl+G and you will end up in the code window with the cursor in the Immediate window. With the form open and a date filled in, type or paste
?forms!form1!StartDt
Into the immediate window and hit return. If you get an error, it means that you have a name wrong somewhere along the line, either your form is not called Form1, and form names can be a little complicated, or your control is not called StartDt. So this is where the version of Access comes in. In Access 2010, if you type Forms! on the criteria line of a query and wait a second, it will give you a list of forms. Pick your form from the list and type ! after the name, Access will come back with a list of controls. Pick your control. You should now have the right form and control name.