Thanks Paul
Rodgy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul McNett" <[email protected]>
To: "Dabo Users list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [dabo-users] Report Designer
> 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
>
[excessive quoting removed by server]
_______________________________________________
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/af49cf604fe7490a9d8d5261c51d1...@roger
