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Verify Date = First or Last day of month

I have 2 Formatted Short Date Fields. Start Date and End Date. The Users can pick any Year or any Month but the Start Day must be the first day of the Month and the End Day must be the Last day of the Month.

And the End Date has to be after the start date. (I can handle this)

The Tables are SQL but the Form that the Users edit is Access. I was thinking of adding code to the Close button to verify this data before allowing them to Close. If it is not correct I will display an error message. I can handle the error message but how do I do the validations for what day of the month they entered?

Ted Bouskill

Do you know how to use .NET in Access? If yes, this function will do exactly what you need:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.daysinmonth.aspx

Or you can do the following in VBA

Function dhDaysInMonth(Optional dtmDate As Date = 0) As Integer
' Return the number of days in the specified month.
If dtmDate = 0 Then
' Did the caller pass in a date? If not, use the current date.
dtmDate = Date
End If
dhDaysInMonth = DateSerial(Year(dtmDate), _
Month(dtmDate) + 1, 1) - _
DateSerial(Year(dtmDate), Month(dtmDate), 1)
End Function

aikimark

A better design would be to have the user select a starting year and month and end year and month. Then your front-end calculates the day-of-month for starting and ending dates.

Robberbaron (robr)

I have attached 2 functions that return the start and end dates of the selected month.

so you could either just use those as the data posted to SQLS, or do a check in the front end to see if the input matches the required date and throw an alert if not.

Function MonthStart(datein As Date) As Date

    MonthStart = DateSerial(Year(datein), Month(datein), 1)
    
End Function

Function MonthEnd(datein As Date) As Date

    MonthEnd = DateSerial(Year(datein), Month(datein) + 1, 1) - 1
    
End Function

Sub button_Close()
    Dim erx As Boolean
    erx = False
    If datepicker1.Date <> MonthStart(datepicker1.Date) Then
        MsgBox "Start date needs to be first of the month"
        erx = True
    End If
    If datepicker2.Date <> MonthEnd(datepicker2.Date) Then
        MsgBox "End date must be the last day of the month"
        erx = True
    End If
    
    If erx = False Then
        'process the date
     Else
       'return to entry for,
    End If
End Sub

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als315

You can ask user enter only month and year and generate first and last day with proposed functions

Jez Walters

If you want to validate the start/end dates in your form, then it's probably best to use the Before Update event handlers of the corresponding controls, like this:

Option Explicit
Option Compare Database

Private Sub txtEndDate_BeforeUpdate(pintCancel As Integer)
    If DatePart("d", txtEndDate + 1) <> 1 Then
        MsgBox "End date must be last day of the month"
        pintCancel = True
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub txtStartDate_BeforeUpdate(pintCancel As Integer)
    If DatePart("d", txtStartDate) <> 1 Then
        MsgBox "Start date must be first day of the month"
        pintCancel = True
    End If
End Sub

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Jez Walters

And here's one I made earlier! :-)
Q26887751.mdb

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PSIUnit

ASKER

WOW!!! That is a whole Lot of Information! Thank you! Let me sift thru it today and figure out which ones work best for this.. I had 2 separate fields originally for the date but the users did not like it that way they want to enter a date even though they have no control over the day ..(go figure).. so i went with them enterring the date and me fixing it... i will let you know how it works out.. Thank you very much ...

Robberbaron (robr)

@cactus_data had never thought of using day=0 in a dateserial to get the last day of prev month but certainly works.

Gustav Brock

It does. DateSerial is a great function.

/gustav

PSIUnit

ASKER

That was Great! Thank all of you for your help.

Gustav Brock

You are welcome!

/gustav