Converting an Excel formula to an Access query formula

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Hi All,

In our office we are using Touchpaper Helpdesk (effectively its a database
for Call logging in a Telephony centre).

In the data tables it records dates as a large Integer .i.e the date
24/05/2004 appears in the database tables as 131335448.

I am using Microsoft Access 97 to connect to the tables through ODBC and it
works fine however I want to search on data between dates however I have only
calculated a formula in Excel.

Below is the formula in Excel that converts the date integer into a usuable
date format of "dd/mm/yyyy" , note that the field [DB DATE ENCODED FIELD] is
the date interger .i.e as above 131335448.

=[DB DATE ENCODED FIELD]-(TRUNC([DB DATE ENCODED
FIELD]/65536)*65536)-((TRUNC((([DB DATE ENCODED FIELD])-((TRUNC([DB DATE
ENCODED FIELD]/65536))*65536))/256))*256)&"/"&IF(LEN(TRUNC((([DB DATE ENCODED
FIELD])-((TRUNC([DB DATE ENCODED FIELD]/65536))*65536))/256))<2,0&TRUNC((([DB
DATE ENCODED FIELD])-((TRUNC([DB DATE ENCODED
FIELD]/65536))*65536))/256),TRUNC((([DB DATE ENCODED FIELD])-((TRUNC([DB DATE
ENCODED FIELD]/65536))*65536))/256))&"/"&TRUNC([DB DATE ENCODED FIELD]/65536)

Has anyone got the skill level to convert this from an excel working
funcation to a Function that will work in a Access Query? So I can
effectively search on dates.

Would be so chuffed is someone knew this!
 
The formula should work in Access if you replace TRUNC with INT, and IF
with IIF.
Hi All,

In our office we are using Touchpaper Helpdesk (effectively its a database
for Call logging in a Telephony centre).

In the data tables it records dates as a large Integer .i.e the date
24/05/2004 appears in the database tables as 131335448.

I am using Microsoft Access 97 to connect to the tables through ODBC and it
works fine however I want to search on data between dates however I have only
calculated a formula in Excel.

Below is the formula in Excel that converts the date integer into a usuable
date format of "dd/mm/yyyy" , note that the field [DB DATE ENCODED FIELD] is
the date interger .i.e as above 131335448.

=[DB DATE ENCODED FIELD]-(TRUNC([DB DATE ENCODED
FIELD]/65536)*65536)-((TRUNC((([DB DATE ENCODED FIELD])-((TRUNC([DB DATE
ENCODED FIELD]/65536))*65536))/256))*256)&"/"&IF(LEN(TRUNC((([DB DATE ENCODED
FIELD])-((TRUNC([DB DATE ENCODED FIELD]/65536))*65536))/256))<2,0&TRUNC((([DB
DATE ENCODED FIELD])-((TRUNC([DB DATE ENCODED
FIELD]/65536))*65536))/256),TRUNC((([DB DATE ENCODED FIELD])-((TRUNC([DB DATE
ENCODED FIELD]/65536))*65536))/256))&"/"&TRUNC([DB DATE ENCODED FIELD]/65536)

Has anyone got the skill level to convert this from an excel working
funcation to a Function that will work in a Access Query? So I can
effectively search on dates.

Would be so chuffed is someone knew this!
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