Developing Search Function in Access

[nik707]

Hello all,

I would like to develop a date search from Form in Access. Here is the sample of previous search coding I have developed used the help of experts on this forum.

    'Approach to CSR
    If Not IsNull(txtSearchField12) Then
        GCriteria4 = GetResults(Me.txtSearchField12, "[ApproachtoCSR]", Me.optSearch)

        If GCriteria = "" Then
           GCriteria = GCriteria4
 
        Else
              GCriteria = GCriteria & " AND " & GCriteria4
        End If
   
    End If
       
    'Publisher
    If Not IsNull(cboSearchField2) Then
        GCriteria5 = GetResults(cboSearchField2.Value, "[Publisher]", Me.optSearch)
 
            If GCriteria = "" Then
               GCriteria = GCriteria5
 
           Else
                GCriteria = GCriteria & " AND " & GCriteria5
           End If
          
    End If
              
    Form_frmInput.RecordSource = "select * from Entry where " & GCriteria & ";"

    Form_frmInput.Requery
   
    If Form_frmInput.NewRecord Then
        MsgBox "No matching records found. Try less restricted search criteria", vbOKOnly, "No Matches Found"
       
    Else
        MsgBox "Results have been filtered.", vbOKOnly, "Search Successful"
        DoCmd.Close acForm, "frmSearch"
    End If

I do want to develop something similar. From my research I gathered something like this that would go under the cmbSearch_Click function

- Date is the title of the date column and Entry is the title of the Table where the dates are stored.

  If Not IsNull(txtDate) AND IsDate(txtDate) Then
    GCriteria6 = "SELECT Entry.* FROM Entry" _
         & " WHERE Format([Date],'dd/mm/yyyy')= #" _
         & Format(txtDate, "dd/mm/yyyy") & "#"
 
    If GCriteria = "" Then
               GCriteria = GCriteria6
     Else
         GCriteria = GCriteria & " AND " & GCriteria6
   End If
 End If

Here is my previous thread here to see how I am developing the search function

http://bytes.com/forum/showthread.php? p=3178305#post3 178305

Now the problem is to give the user a message if he enters the date is wrong format...I don't know where exactly that msg code would go or how to check if the user entered wrong date. And please do check if my code "looks right" too.

Thanks in advance for your time!

[nik707]

figured it out using examples!