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    #1

    HELP - I can't get a Date

    To work on LIST FILTERS

    Hey Alpha land

    I am beginning to feel like I am missing some BIG SECRET here - how the heck do dates work on list filters?

    What I want to do seems really simple. I want to have a client side search that will show me records in my list for a date from the date picker. I am at the end here - this should not be so hard.

    I have a connection to a SQL server and there's two main dates in my data that, "Scheduled Date" and "Promised Date". Both are now datetime fields in the SQL and were converted from MS Access originally. The Scheduled Date field contains a full date and time, while Promised Date contains only the date - that is to say the time is set to 12:00....

    I want my user to pick a date from a calendar control and the list to filter to show just fields where the Promised Date is equal to the chosen date. Then when I have that working I would like to get really sophisticated here and have the list be filtered for a date range... :)

    Any help would be appreciated...
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    Re: HELP - I can't get a Date

    Haha .. nice title :-)

    It should be straight forward, I have a fairly complex search set up to filter a list based on a date range.
    I do it using the Filter Records In A List Control action javascript function going against SQL table and datetime fields.

    Looks like this .. http://screencast.com/t/LDH0sjiM

    Let me know if you need more specifics.
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      Re: HELP - I can't get a Date

      Thanks - that's impressive.

      I have done a lot more testing and I figured out when I have a problem, just not why.

      My list reads from a Work Order table and then connects in the SQL statement to the Customer Table to get the address, name, etc. If I remove the join and work with just the Work Order tables, the filters work great. As soon as I connect the Customer Table, the filter stops working.

      Does anyone know what might be going on?

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        Re: HELP - I can't get a Date

        Originally posted by PhotoHog View Post
        Thanks - that's impressive.

        I have done a lot more testing and I figured out when I have a problem, just not why.

        My list reads from a Work Order table and then connects in the SQL statement to the Customer Table to get the address, name, etc. If I remove the join and work with just the Work Order tables, the filters work great. As soon as I connect the Customer Table, the filter stops working.

        Does anyone know what might be going on?
        Do you have another query tool to test the SQL with?

        And/or can you post both of your SQL statements to this thread?
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          Re: HELP - I can't get a Date

          Originally posted by Al Buchholz View Post
          Do you have another query tool to test the SQL with?

          And/or can you post both of your SQL statements to this thread?
          Here is the SQL statement from the list that is working - this was just a test UX to see if I could isolate the problem. This only pulls from one table "Work Orders". Note: The fields and tables contain a lot of spaces. This is a MS Access legacy database that I converted to SQL and I cannot clean up the field names because most of the operations are still in MS Access.

          SELECT [Work Order Number] AS Work_Order_Number, [Sold to Customer] AS Sold_to_Customer, [Ship to Customer] AS Ship_to_Customer, Subject, [Work Description] AS Work_Description, [Scheduled Date] AS Scheduled_Date, [Promised Date] AS Promised_Date, Priority, Technician, Status
          FROM [Work Order]
          WHERE [Work Order].Status = 'OPEN'


          Here is the statement from my active project. This has a different WHERE clause that finds work orders for the next two days but I have tried it with different where clauses and no where clause, all with the same result. I cannot seach / filter on the date fields.

          SELECT [Work Order].[Work Order Number] AS Work_Order_Number, Customers.[Last Name] AS Last_Name, Customers.Street, Customers.[Zip/Postal Code] AS Zip_Postal_Code, [Work Order].[Sold to Customer] AS Sold_to_Customer, [Work Order].[Ship to Customer] AS Ship_to_Customer, [Work Order].Subject, [Work Order].[Work Description] AS Work_Description, [Work Order].[Scheduled Date] AS Scheduled_Date, [Work Order].[Promised Date] AS Promised_Date, [Work Order].Priority, [Work Order].Technician, [Work Order].Status
          FROM [Work Order] [Work Order]
          INNER JOIN Customers Customers
          ON [Work Order].[Ship to Customer] = Customers.[Customer Number]
          WHERE Datediff(w, [Work Order].[Promised Date], GetDate() ) BETWEEN -2 AND 0
          ORDER BY [Work Order].[Scheduled Date]

          Thanks

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            Re: HELP - I can't get a Date

            In your list properties, do you have Portable SQL checked? If so, try unchecking it and run the query as native SQL.
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