I’m appreciative when I am able to quickly find a solution to a challenge. I tend to prefer to recall those times over long draw out battles, but see some of both, of course.
After I had given up trying to insert dates into ComputerEase, I tried again and found a post in the MSDN forum to be helpful.
Dates should follow the {d’yyyy-mm-dd} format. Here’s an example:
UPDATE jcjob SET name=’CUST NAME’, dateopen={d’1998-11-20′}, contractamt=1200.00 WHERE jobnum = ‘AK0002’
The trick here is padding the date with zeros as needed to make it 10 characters long. The following method [C#] may be useful.
/// <summary> /// Returns a string that can be used to insert /// the given date in the ComputerEase database /// </summary> /// <param name="date"></param> /// <returns></returns> private static string FormatDateForQuery(DateTime date) { return String.Format(@"{{d'{0:yyyy-MM-dd}'}}", date); }
Mudnug 
Do you know if there is a way to query datetime? I am working with ComputerEase user defined fields but they don’t allow for creating a datetime field. The workaround was to create one date field and another “string” field that the user free-format types in the time. I was hoping to query records for a datetime as a combination of the two fields. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!