Performing dateadd on nulls

you can test for null values before performing the DateAdd function.

give more details .. post the codes behind the command button click

(Assuming you are calling a function with Date parameters)

You need to decide if you want to fix this on the calling side or the code that receives the dates.  You can use Nz(YourField, 0) to coerce the nulls into a Date type but you're going have to test for those "magic date" (December 30, 1899) values within the function with DateAdd.

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(Assuming the code is just in the button click event,)

If Not IsNull(YourDateField) Then
   'do your DateAdd stuff
Else
   'how do you want to handle this?
End If

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HTH,

Pteranodon

Thanks chaps. The code I am using is as follows. I have a possible 18 dates that can be added. The code follows this pattern for the rest of the year. Once it has been passed to the form I click another command button that removes weekends

Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtFebToUs] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![1st Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate2Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![2nd Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate3Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![3rd Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate4feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![4th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate5Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![5th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate6Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![6th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate7Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![7th Date])
 
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtMarchToUs] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtFebToUs])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate2Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate2Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate3Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate3Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate4Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate4feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate5Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate5Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate6Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate6Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate7Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate7Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate8Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate8Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate9Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate9Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate10Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate10Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate11Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate11Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate12Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate12Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate13Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate13Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate14Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate14Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate15Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate15Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate16Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate16Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate17Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate17Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate18Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate18Feb])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate8Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![8th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate9Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![9th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate10Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![10th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate11Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![11th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate12Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![12th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate13Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![13th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate14Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![14th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate15Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![15th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate16Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![16th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate17Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![17th Date])
Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate18Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![18th date])

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Hi

This seems to work for the first 7 dates that I have on my form but not for any dates after that. If I leave dates 1-7 blank then it works. However, when I leave dates 8-18 blank it falls over and gives runtime error 13 type mismatch. However, all of my textbox references are correct. When I go to debug and hover over the textbox reference in my code, I can see that it is falling over at any date after Date 7 that doesn't have a value. This is really confusing me.

One thing I can think of that may be contributing is that I originally designed the form with only 7 dates. I recently added dates 8-18 by copying the text boxes on the form and renaming them Date 8 - Date18 etc

check the codes that you created


If not isnull(Me.[1st Date]) then Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtFebToUs] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![1st Date])

If not isnull(Me.[2nd Date]) then Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate2Feb] = DateAdd("m", 1, Me![2nd Date])

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if not isnull(Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtFebToUs]) then Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtMarchToUs] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtFebToUs])

if not isnull(Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate2Feb]) then Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate2Mar] = DateAdd("m", 1, Forms!MonthlySchedule![txtDate2Feb])

and so on...

I have worked this issue out now, it was due to the data types being different in my table.

I am going to be removing weekend dates from the dates that are created, am I correct in thinking that I will avoid problems with null if I use the following code. (I am just wanting to add 1 date onto a Sunday and 2 dates onto a Saturday)

If Not IsNull(Weekday(Me.[txtJanToUs])) Then
txtJanToUs = DateAdd("d", 1, [txtJanToUs])
End If

If Not IsNull(Weekday(nz(Me.[txtJanToUs],0))) Then
txtJanToUs = DateAdd("d", 1, [txtJanToUs])
End If

better, to handle sunday

If  Weekday(nz(Me.[txtJanToUs],0))=1 Then
txtJanToUs = DateAdd("d", 1, [txtJanToUs])
End If

Thankyou this works great