Entering Date Criteria

There are several options available for entering a Date criteria value to provide additional flexibility. You can specify a particular date, a predefined range of dates, or a relative date based on the current day (i.e., today + 5 days).

For example, these options enable you to set up a report to always retrieve records where the End Date is less than 30 days from the day the report is run, i.e. (End Date < Current Date + 30) as shown in the example below.

Note: "Current Date" is always the day the report is run.

The following options are available:

Use - This field determines how the date criteria is going to behave. There are several options:

•	No Date - to find records where the date in question is blank.

•	Specific Date - to find records matching a specific date

•	Current Date (Today) - to find records matching the current date

•	Tomorrow - to find records matching the current date +1 day

•	Yesterday - to find records matching the current date -1 day

•	Current Date (Adjusted +/- Days) - to find records with a date relative to the current date. A negative number such as "-10" means the date must fall within the preceeding 10 days. A positive number such as "30" means the date must fall within the following 30 days.

The rest of the options are predefined ranges. For example, if the report is run on 5/28/2005, the "Last Month" option means "4/1/2005 - 4/30/2005", and "Month to Date" means "5/1/2005 - 5/28/2005", and "Last Year" means 01/01/2004 - 12/31/2004.

Date - This field is only enabled when the "Use" field is set to "Specific Date" so you can choose the date.

Adjusted - This field only appears when the "Use" field is set to "Current Date (Adjusted +/- Days). Its usage is described above.