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    Field Types Don't Match

    I am trying to initialize statements for 2006. I've copied a form that worked great throughtout 2005. I want to update a variable called rental_from with the value 01/01/2006. The variable type is date.

    When I go to the action script it works fine. When I save the script I don't get an error. When I save the form I don't get an error and it even shows a line in a browse table for the year 2006. When I go to view the form I get an error that says rental_from -- field types don't match. The record that appeared goes away.

    This logic has worked for me for the past two years. I did upgrade to alpha5 version 6 last year but the statements for 2005 continued to work.

    Can anyone tell me what's causing this error? Timing is of essence!

    #2
    used an expression to solve problem

    I solved my problem by changing to an expression for rental_from

    date_value(2006,1,1)

    The form seemed to like it.

    So I guess variable values for dates do not want mm/dd/yyyy anymore. Who would have guessed?

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      #3
      I have just now written a short script including the following which
      is called by "on arrive" for the control concerned:

      individual:census_year.value = group:census_year.value

      I get the message "Field types don't match"

      BUT it works and enters the right value!

      Both the fields are numerical, 4 digit, 0 decimal

      They are not the linking fields being used in the set

      Perhaps if I changed the name of one of them?

      Any ideas?

      Robin

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        #4
        Originally posted by Robin Hoare
        I get the message "Field types don't match"

        BUT it works and enters the right value!


        Any ideas?

        Robin
        The message is not necessarily a direct result of your script and would seem not to be given that the value is entered. Do you have any other code that fires once the "individual:census_year.value" is assigned?
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          Yes Stan, there is a small calculation , the individual's age is subtracted from individual:census_year.value to get the approximate year of birth, but that has been working well for weeks and the field type of "age" is correct.

          Strangely enough, I don't get the error message this morning, after shutting down and rebooting the PC and of course reloading Alpha! I will try doing that next time I have an inexplicable error message.

          Thanks again

          Robin

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            #6
            Re: Field Types Don't Match

            I had exactly the same problem this morning which I eventually traced to a field rule on the field I was trying to update. The field was set to 'calculated' which although it didn't prevent the record being updated threw up this extremely misleading error.

            Another hour of my life I'll never get back :-(

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