Allow only certain dates to be entered in MS Access form

You'll need to write VBA code in the date text box's BeforeUpdate event that evaluates the user-entered date based on your multiple criteria.

If it doesn't meet your criteria, you can clear the value out and set Cancel = True, which cancels the update.

Hi Jim,

Thanks for that reply but I can already get that with the combo box, limit to list and I could write the code to let the user know they have picked an incorrect date.  The issue is that the user would then need to guess correct dates.  

I.e. in the combo box the dates 1/29/2013 and 1/30/2013 are the only available dates next week.  I want to show that to the user in the date picker or another graphical view without them needing to guess (like outlook task display for example).

Thanks,

Bill

I would suggest sticking with a standard date picker and Jim's method for ruling out invalid dates:

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see a date picker or similar form with the invalid dates grayed out.
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Otherwise, you would have to develop a custom form, possibly using small textboxes formatted to look like the dates, with text box properties for any invalid dates set to enabled = false.  

The code to do this (and to simply populate the dates in the form) would be quite involved.

You might be able to find 3rd party solutions that do this, but otherwise it is a ton of effort for little gain.

You will not be able to do that with the standard Access date picker, as there is no way to grey-out invalid dates.  I have seen a couple of custom date pickers mentioned here in EE, but have never used any of them.  I created my own back in A2000, but you would have to write some code to modify my calendar form to disable the dates that are not available.

Take a look and see whether you can make it work for your purposes.
Calendar.mdb

Hello fyed,

Your Calendar.mdb This looks promising.  Need to figure out a way to Disable combo boxes based on a list of dates when a month is selected.

Looks like the Caption of the various boxes changes so maybe we can test the date there...  Can you point me in the right direction with the code?

Thanks,

Bill

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Very cool. &nbsp;I can get there from here. &nbsp;Thanks! &nbsp;Bill

Very cool.  I can get there from here.  Thanks,

Bill

Glad I could help.

I had been thinking about adding some code to block out periods of time, (Before some date, After some date, but had not gotten around to it.  Guess I need to put that back on my list of things to do.

Thanks for all your help!  
I am not so good at VB and this was the only post anywhere on he internet, that I could find to help me out with blocking all days/dates on every month except for Fridays (when the weekly report is due for all employees.)  

I just changed the > 5, to <>5 and it works perfectly!

Thanks again!

Now I just have to figure out having the date selected to be passed to the actual form for submitting the data into the table.