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Access Date Query

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I'm struggling to filter a query to show records that either fall into last month, this month or the next 2 months (i.e. its November now, so I want to show records that fall into October, November, December & January). the field I am apply the filter to is [Bill Date] and I've put in a filter of >=DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())-1,1) And <DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())+2,1). But this returns nothing, can anyone help?  the SQL of the whole query is here:

SELECT AccountsQuery.Likelihood, MonthName([MonthOnly]) AS [Month], Format(Month([Bill Date]),"00") AS MonthOnly, Year([Bill Date]) & Format(Month([Bill Date]),"00") AS MonthNumber, AccountsQuery.ProjectID, AccountsQuery.Firm, [ProjectName] & " - " & [Phase Name] AS Details, AccountsQuery.Stakeholder, AccountsQuery.[Bill Date], ([Fee]) AS gggg, FormatCurrency([Fee]) AS Feef, FormatCurrency([Cos]) AS Cosf, FormatCurrency([Bottom Line]) AS [Bottom Linef], AccountsQuery.Notes, [MCIProj-Status].[Status Type], [MCIProj-Status].[Group Order]
FROM AccountsQuery LEFT JOIN [MCIProj-Status] ON AccountsQuery.Status = [MCIProj-Status].Status
WHERE (((AccountsQuery.[Bill Date])>=DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())-1,1) And (AccountsQuery.[Bill Date])<DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())+2,1)));
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WHERE AccountsQuery.[BillDate] BETWEEN dateAdd("m",-1,Date()) AND  dateAdd("m",2,Date())

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That will be:

WHERE (((AccountsQuery.[Bill Date])>=DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())-1,1)
And (AccountsQuery.[Bill Date])<=DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())+3,0)));

/gustav
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Thanks for these, unfortunately neither work, although the syntax looks all perfect, I'm wondering if it could be to do with the formatting of the field in the underlying table which is set to Date/Time & format "dd/mm/yyyy"?
Is your regional setting one with a dd/mm/yyyy setting?
does this work better ?
WHERE AccountsQuery.[BillDate] BETWEEN #" & dateAdd("m",-1,Date()) &"# AND  #" & dateAdd("m",2,Date()) &"#""

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Think so, here's a screenshot of the PC's region & Language settings...User generated image
if your settings are dd/mm/yyyy you have to tweak to this
WHERE AccountsQuery.[BillDate] BETWEEN #" & format(dateAdd("m",-1,Date()),"mm/dd/yyyy") &"# AND  #" & format(dateAdd("m",2,Date()),"mm/dd/yyyy") &"#""

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Hi John,

I keep getting a syntax error (missing operator) with this, not sure what's missing though
Please, please - you are both far out. The regional settings has nothing to do with this.

Your original method is correct with the modification I showed - if and if  [Bill Date] is a date field.
If it is text - which can be the only reason why your query doesn't work, convert it to date - either permanently (preferred) or like this:

WHERE DateValue(AccountsQuery.[Bill Date])>=DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())-1,1)
And (AccountsQuery.[Bill Date])<=DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())+3,0);

/gustav
usually the complain also points where the error is....if your query is in code transfer it to query editor to get a clearer view....if it's in a query and you use as list separator ";" then you need to change the commas "," to ";"
Besides - John's method will never give you the desired results. Ran today, it would filter for 2016-10-17 to 2017-01-17 while you request is for 2016-10-01 to 2017-01-31.

/gustav
try this

 Where DateSerial(Year([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date]),Month([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date]),day([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date])) berween
 DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())-1,1) and DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())+3,0)
typo


try this

  Where DateSerial(Year([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date]),Month([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date]),day([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date])) between
  DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())-1,1) and DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())+3,0)
Oh no, even more confusion added.

   DateSerial(Year([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date]),Month([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date]),day([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date]))

will return nothing but .... [Bill Date]

There are many way to complicate matters.

/gustav
In Greece the regional settings are dd/mm/yyyy so my solution works just fine....fyi
I've stripped the query back to its basics and put an ascending sort on [Bill Date] - it doesn't sort properly which presumably implies a corruption somewhere?
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if there is corruption then its time for compact & repair...but probably you have a sort somewhere that is changing your order(index?)...move BillDate to be the very first column in your query
@correlate

Is this a date field or a text field?
It's definitely a date field, but it sorts like a text field.  My only thinking is that this particular field in the query is populated by an iif statement, but all all the options in the statement take their data from date fields ( I went back through and checked each one)
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try creating a new query and place this

Field  Expr1:DateSerial(Year([Bill Date]),Month([Bill Date]),Day([Bill Date]))

Sort Ascending


see if you will get a correct listing order
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Hi Rey, re the sort - that works all ok
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Rey, if [Bill Date] is a date (which is now appears not to be)

    DateSerial(Year([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date]),Month([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date]),day([AccountsQuery].[Bill Date]))

will return nothing but .... [Bill Date]

If it is text, it is just a more convoluted replacement for DateValue adding no improvement at all.

/gustav
@gustav,
I suggest that you try things first before posting something
Oh, I noticed the missing DateValue. Couldn't you just have made a note on that?

So:
WHERE DateValue(AccountsQuery.[Bill Date])>=DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())-1,1) 
And DateValue(AccountsQuery.[Bill Date])<=DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(Date())+3,0); 

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/gustav
Thanks for your help on this & useful tot know for the future re the way dates are handled in selection queries