Re: Need help with User-friendly date formats

You can trap the date error in the ON-ERROR trigger, and further code what you want in that
trigger.

<mrivera_at_calportland.com> schreef in berichtnieuws 7lj9im$moa$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> First off, we're doing this in Forms 5.0. We're trying to find out if
> there is a way to make a date field user-friendly in the way it is
> entered. For example, a user can enter a date in any variety of
> predetermined formats, such as what is available in MS Excel, which
> would then be translated into our standard format of DD-MON-YYYY.
>
> We've been able to successfully implement this on nondatabase item
> fields. However we've run into problems getting this to work on base
> table date fields. I'm hoping for a simple solution that we could put in
> a library somewhere, but any help would be appreciated.
>
> Maynard Rivera
> Applications Analyst
> California Portland Cement Company
>
>
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Received on Sat Jul 03 1999 - 14:46:58 CEST