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Hello
Could you please advise what I am doing wrong with my date selection process. I have a field called visitdate. Format = dd/mm/yyyy. The field itself is OK because FREQ visitdate works fine. My problem is when I try to select dates less than 1 July ( 01/07/2008)
When I try select visitdate < "01/07/2008" I get an error message "Type Date is incompatible with type String operation aborted"
When I try select visitdate < 01/07/2008 I get an error message "Type Date is incompatible with type Float Operation aborted"
The only way I could find in the end was to use the month function to create a new field called visitmonth from visitdate and then select visit month <7. This worked, but I want to be able to select on the original visitdate field. Could someone help please?
thanks
Christine
Christine Roseveare Analyst Regional Public Health 570 9194 027 495 9671
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