Access: force a user to choose a friday from the calendar?

I think you cannot do that but you can set a control afterwards to check is the friday selected:

If Weekday(Me.DatePicker) <> 5 Then
  MsgBox "You Can Select only Friday!"
Else
  Me.DateTextBox = Me.DatePicker
End If

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As samo4fun indicated, you can't modify the calendar that I'm aware of, but you can check if the weekday for a date is a friday in the controls beforeupdate event.

Do:

Cancel = True

 if an error occurs.   This will stop the control from accepting the value

Jim.

Friday is day 5 of the week if it starts on Monday.  It is day 6 if the week starts on Sunday.  In the US we generally use Monday as the start of the week but you can override that if necessary.

Hi,

normally the user should know that he should only choose a Friday, i.e. through a hint on the form or anything else like that.
So the more userfriendly method would be to check the chosen date after input and programmatically change the date to the Friday date of the same week. On this way the user can click on any date in a week and automatically gets the Friday date which is better than choosing a date and annoy him with a message box which says "hehehe...silly user, you have again chosen the wrong day, try it again and if you do not choose a Friday I will come back to laugh at you again!"
As said above, the user should already know to choose a Friday so he will not be surprised that the date changes to the Friday date of the same week, he will instead love the comfort.

Cheers,

Christian

samo4fun: That looks great, but I can't use Me.DatePicker. DatePicker is not available to me.

Bitsqueezer: That would be fantastic, but I have no idea where to start with that. Can you help me out further?

You need to download it and register it to your system..

Download here : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10019

then use this steps to register it http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249873

Than you will be able to use it

The date picker has been integrated since A2007.  It is automatically activated for any control bound to a field with a date data type.  To make an unbound control a "date",  you need to specify a date format for the control.

Sorry. I don't think I was clear.

The actual datepicker attached to the field works fine.
The problem is using it in the VBA code. It is not a method/data member that is available to me.

maybe it is Me.DatePicker1?

And I can't download it. I am on a network and am not an administrator. Downloading it requires administrator rights/

When I type in "Me.", nothing beginning with the word "Date" shows up.

That is perfect!!!!!

Just what I needed. Thank you!!!