FMP 10v03 Adv on Mac: I tell a buttom to do a simple find with <//
(anything smaller than today's date) in a date field, and it works.

Open the solution on Win XP, same FMP version, and it doesn't accept the
<// in the date field.

Is that a bug, a feature or something I missed?

Now I wrote a script that goes to search mode and puts a calculated
result in the field.
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On 1/14/2011 6:25 AM, Christoph Kaufmann wrote:

Works for me on XP with FM10. Are you sure you were in Find mode when
you did it? What error message do you get?

In article <igq7v0$1e9$1 (AT) news (DOT) motzarella.org>, Howard Schlossberg
<howard (AT) nospam (DOT) fmprosolutions.com> wrote:

In the older versions of FileMaker you couldn't use the symbols in date /
time Fields via the Set Field command for Find Scripts.

For example,
Set Field [MyField; StartDate & "..." & EndDate]
would never work. Instead you had to use the Insert Calculated Result command
i.e.
Insert Calculated Result [MyField; StartDate & "..." & EndDate]

Even then FileMaker wouldn't recognise Dates / Times properly, so you have
to also use the DateToText function.
i.e.
Insert Calculated Result [MyField;
DateToText(StartDate) & "..." & DateToText(EndDate)]

Could be the same bug.

Helpful Harry )

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:25:53 +0100, clk (AT) tele2 (DOT) ch (Christoph Kaufmann)
wrote:

I've tried it on FMP Adv 10.0v3 and it works fine. I am running it on
a Win 7 machine not XP but I doubt that makes a difference.

Howard Schlossberg wrote:

["<//" in a date field on XP, Poblem solved now]
Just the "no records found" thing you get when you do a search; and the
<// was still in the field; meaning it didn't replace the // by today's
date.

Got it working here just by re-entering the <// in the find step. Brrr,
should have tried that first. May there was a blank character in there
and Filemaker didn't mind that on Mac.
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