I’ve found that in IWP I have to use the Enter Find Mode / Set field method for it to perform finds reliably. When I try to set a field to something like ..//, FM gives me an error [ie. This number could not be evaluated.].

What I need is to find all records prior to the current date. And like Wade’s, all this has to run by the click of a button. Any ideas on how to do this in IWP?

Thanks

But in a case like this, you can always revert to the more explicit method. For instance, use a script like this:

Enter Find Mode []
Set Field [My Date Field, Month(Get(CurrentDate)) & "/" & Year(Get(CurrentDate))]
Perform Find []

In this example, I use FileMaker’s calculation engine to construct a find that looks like this: 1/2008 which means “Any day in January of this year.”

Hope this helps

Geoff

Is there a way to pull any record dated/changed in the *current* month. So if I ran a report on January 12th, it would give me Jan 1 > 12 (of the current year)…and if I ran the same report on January 31st, it would give me the entire month…

If the above is not possible, I could always pull it by all values in the past 31 days. I’m trying to avoid this, as a report ran on Feb.28 gives me some of January.

Bear in mind, this list-pull will be part of a script, that’s connected to a button. Some folks that I work with who don’t know how to use FM at all will use this script by pressing the button that automates it.

Any ideas on how to get these results, without them having to type in anything?

Luckily, it’s easy to do with a script. You will take three steps:

1. Find the transactions for a particular month.
2. Locate the last of the found transactions.
3. Remove all the others from your found set.

The find portion is fairly simple, using the techniques describe in this article. To find transactions in March, 2007, search your Transaction Date field for 3/*/2007.

To locate the most recent of the transactions, just sort them descending by creation timestamp or transaction date, or whatever is appropriate.

Finally, you can use the Omit Multiple command to remove the older transactions from the found set.

Here’s a sample script that does these things. This version prompts the user to enter a month and year, but it could be written to use a script parameter, hard coded date, or whatever is appropriate for your situation.

Show Custom Dialog [ "Month"; "Enter the month and year to find."; My Table::Global Month; My Table::Global Year ]
Enter Find Mode
Set Field [Transaction Date; "My Table::Global Month & "/*/" & My Table::Global Year]
Set Error Capture [On]
Perform Find
Set Error Capture [Off]
Sort Records [Restore, No Dialog]
Go to Record/Request/Page [2]
Omit Multiple [Get(FoundCount) - 1]

If you run this script, or a variant of it, you’ll see that FileMaker carries out all the steps very quickly, and shows your results.

Hope this helps.

Luckily, the concept is really quite simple. Whatever date format your computer is configured to use, just put a “*” in any one or more of the date segments. FileMaker will treat this as a wildcard. So, for instance, if your date format is “day/month/year” and you search for 4/*/2007 you’ll find the fourth of every month in 2007.

If you want to be a little more restrictive, put a range inside { and } instead. This will find the fourth of every month in the first quarter: 4/{1..3}/2007.

Hope that makes sense.