Hello... this is my first post and I have an Access formula dilema that I've been struggling for several days now.

I have 2 separate date fields on a Monthly Status Report I created and don't know how to create the formula on the Report's Filter property.

One is called Effective_Date and the other one is called Expiry_Date.

I am trying to capture the following records with these scenarios

(a) Records where the Effective_Date is Oct-2007 OR
(b) Records where the Expiry_Date is Oct-2007 OR
(c) Records that would fall between Effective_Date and Expiry_Date in Oct-2007 (such as Aug-2007 to Nov-2007)

Any help is very much appreciated!!!

For (a) nd (b)

Where Effective_Date between #10/1/2007# and #10/31/2007# or Expiry_Date between #10/1/2007# and #10/31/2007#

Note sure what you mean for (c)

Boyd
"Hi Tech Coach"
Access Based Accounting/Business Solutions developer.
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Hopefully this will clarify what I need. I do a monthly report and each marketing message is a separate record having StartDate and EndDate fields. I need to filter records where messages started, ended and are still in market within Oct-2007.

For the messages that Started or Ended in Oct-2007 I'm using.
[StartDate]="10-2007" or [EndDate]="10-2007"

My dilemma for scenario (c) is how to identify those records that may fall between The Start and End Date. In other words, if a marketing message Start Date is before Oct-2007 and the End date is after Oct-2007 I want to also keep that record. (Example: StartDate=July-2007 and EndDate=Dec-2007).

When I tried to enter it this way in the Report's Filter I kept getting a syntax error.
[StartDate]<"10-2007" and [EndDate]>"10-2007"

is there another way to rephrase this?

Hello, Diana. The date ranges you are trying to set are not valid dates. A date (in USA format) is defined by a month, day, and year (usually expressed mm/dd/yyyy).

You said "Oct-2007". That is not a date. First, you have it in quotes which make it a string. Second, you only have a month and year but no day. Valid date ranges (in USA format) are, for example:

[StartDate] Between #10/1/2007# And #10/31/2007#
[StartDate] < #10/1/2007# and [EndDate] > #10/31/2007#

The pound sign # is the delimiter for the DATE data type.


Greg Serrano
Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division

Hello... I figured out what I did wrong. I had the variable setup as a date field (ie #10/1/2007#, which I later formatted it using the Date Part function so that the date would be "10-2007". Although my start and end fields were valid dates, it seems MS Access doesn't calculate properly when you've formatted the dates using date part. I redid my formula using the original date (#10/1/2007#) instead of "10-2007" and it now works.

Thanks to all who helped me with this!!

minor alteration to what you've put in the data fields, try making the two dates 30/09/2007 and 01/11/2007 and that way ensure that you are catching the data that expires on the 31st october and starts on the 1st october as i've learnt access doesn't quite work right with dates even when you use the >= or =< and the relevant dates.