I have become accustomed to the conveniences of finding in FM8, and have
apparently forgotten everything I knew about FM6. I have been asked to
modify an existing solution in 6.

Someone (Harry?) please refresh me on how I would script finding a range
of dates using global date fields representing StartDate and EndDate and
symbols.

Matt

Make sure the field you're searching on is on the current layout, and
use the Insert Calculated Result step:

datetotext(StartDate) & "..." & datetotext(EndDate)


Matt Wills wrote:

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Howard Schlossberg (818) 883-2846
FM Professional Solutions, Inc. Los Angeles

FileMaker 8 Certified Developer
Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance

I thought I had tried that, but did it again to make sure.

For some reason, all that's being inserted is the ellipsis.

Matt

In article <12lmg6r3mi27df5 (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com>,
Howard Schlossberg <howard (AT) antispahm (DOT) fmprosolutions.com> wrote:

Are your StartDate and EndDate fields truly dates? Or could they be
text fields?

Matt Wills wrote:
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Howard Schlossberg (818) 883-2846
FM Professional Solutions, Inc. Los Angeles

FileMaker 8 Certified Developer
Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance

They are dates, but I realized that I had neglected to make them global
dates. There was nothing to insert but an ellipsis.

It works now.

Thanks.

Matt

In article <12ln67udibclie0 (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com>,
Howard Schlossberg <howard (AT) antispahm (DOT) fmprosolutions.com> wrote: