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    DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK FROM A DATE FIELD

    HI, DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK WITH THE DATE, FROM A DATE FIELD.

    EXAMPLE I HAVE A DATE FIELD WITH THE DEFAULT VALUE= DATE() AT RECORD ENTRY. I WOULD LIKE FOR IT TO SHOW THE DAY OF THE WEEK.

    NOT: 07/14/2005 BUT: THURSDAY JULY 14 2005

    IS THIS POSSIBLE?

    THANK YOU
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    RE: DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK FROM A DATE FIELD

    Set the desired "format style" in your form or report layout using the format tab of the field object's properties.

    -- tom

    p.s. ALL CAPS LETTERING is usually interpreted as SHOUTING and is harder for most of us to read.

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      RE: DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK FROM A DATE FIELD

      Debbie,

      My earlier post was woefully inadequate. The format styles available on the format tab of the properties dialog do not include the day of the week.

      You can create the desired format using an expression that incorporates several of the many date converstion functions:

      Here's an example prepared using the interactive editor:

      dim tmp_date as D
      tmp_date = date()

      ?cdow(tmp_date)+" "+cmonth(tmp_date)+" "+day(tmp_date)+", "+year(tmp_date)
      = "Thursday July 14, 2005"

      -- tom

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        RE: DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK FROM A DATE FIELD

        Also:

        dim tmp_date as D
        tmp_date = date()

        ?date_format(tmp_date,"Weekday Month d, yyyy")
        = "Thursday July 14, 2005"


        In addition, if you wanted to shout at your client with less readable output, you could even use:

        ?date_format(tmp_date,"WEEKDAY MONTH d, yyyy")
        = "THURSDAY JULY 14, 2005"

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          #5
          RE: DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK FROM A DATE FIELD

          Steve,

          Neat! I'm going to have to get familiar with date_format().

          -- tom

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            #6
            RE: DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK FROM A DATE FIELD

            Tom,

            It's very easy to get used to. When you get to the "Custom_Date_Format" parameter you can press Cntl-down to get a genie with all of the available date codes. Instead of having to learn all of those codes, you can easily construct your desired format. Thank you, Alpha!

            Steve

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              #7
              RE: DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK FROM A DATE FIELD

              I like that one..that was cute.

              Thanks guys, and sorry for shouting

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                #8
                RE: DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK FROM A DATE FIELD

                Hi Steve,

                How can I apply this to my field called "att_date".

                I want this field to show the current dat a record entry using that format.

                Thanks much :)

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                  RE: DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK FROM A DATE FIELD

                  excuse my typo


                  I want this field to show the current date at record entry using that format.

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                    RE: DISPLAY THE DAY OF THE WEEK FROM A DATE FIELD

                    Debbie,

                    Yes, you can. In the field rules for att_date, just make it a calculated field and use the above expression.

                    As Tom has brought out in some other threads recently, you need to consider whether you really need this field as such in the first place. You could just make att_date a date field to hold the date that the record was last updated. Then when you need the desired format (e.g. "Friday July 15, 2005") for a given layout, it is easy to do so.

                    That latter approach also gives greater flexibility. Suppose you do not have much room on a layout on which to fit the long formatted string. You can then choose other shorter formats (e.g. "Jul 15, 2005") for the same date field. My 2 cents.

                    Steve

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