Roger Lovelock wrote: > First report completed and correct in every particular (Financial Statement). > I am now working on various transaction listings. Problem I have is hopefully > simple - in the Financial Statement the only date was the Report date (ie > Today) which was easy to get and format per local format. In the transaction > listings each detail line has a date of course. My problem is - how do I > enter a date in my test cursor - in the absence of any sort of indicator it > is being read as either a string, or an integer and my formatting of the > field is then causing an error. > Any advice appreciated.
The string values in the report designer property sheet will get eval()'d by the report writer, which is why when you enter a string you need to put the quotes, like "Paul McNett". For dates, use datetime.date(2006,5,3) for example (no quotes). Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
