Encoding query parameters. The values of query parameters should be percent-encoded. Many HTTP clients, browsers, and tools (such as the Graph Explorer) will help you with this. If a query is failing, one possible cause is failure to encode the query parameter values appropriately. An unencoded URL looks like this. Region— you can create a type of query called a parameter query. When you run a parameter query, you are prompted for the data to use as the criteria when the query selects records. For example, a parameter query might prompt you to enter a specific region, and you could reuse this query to create each of your regional sales reports.
- You have to make sure the Parameters!Parameter1.Value is a date. So, when you using string as parameter type you have to write like this: =format(cdate(Parameters!Parameter1.Value), 'dd/MM/yyyy') And then, if your dataset need a string parameter, you can just set this in the parameter tab in the dataset: =format(cdate(Parameters!Parameter1.Value), 'dd/MM/yyyy') But if the dataset expect a date time parameter.
- With the query open in Design view, on the Design tab, in the Show/Hide group, click Parameters. In the Query Parameters box, in the Parameter column, enter the prompt for each parameter you want to specify a data type for. Make sure that each parameter matches the prompt that you used in the Criteria row of the query design grid.
On my Contextures website, the focus in on Excel tips and tutorials. Behind the scenes, I use Microsoft Access too, for time tracking, website statistics and a few other key tasks. This week, I wanted to find files that hadn’t been updated for a long time, so I created a query that selects records older than X – Access asks what X is each time the query runs. Here’s what I built, and a few other Access query date criteria examples.
Access Query With Simple Date Criteria
If there is a date field in a table, it’s easy to build a simple query that selects record before or after a specific date. For example, use this criterion in the date field, to select records that were revised on or before January 1, 2017.
<= 1/1/2017
Access automatically puts number signs before and after the date, when you press Enter, or click away from the criteria cell
<= #1/1/2017#
Access Query Criteria for Specific Date Range
To select records within a specific date range, with two dates with the AND operator, in the query criteria. Here’s the criteria string that selects records from January 1, 2017 to May 31, 2017 (including those dates).
Between #1/1/2017# And #5/31/2017#
Query With Changeable Dates
Just like an Excel date formula, it’s usually better to have a variable in an Access query, instead of hard coding a specific date. In Excel, a formula could refer to a worksheet cell, and a date could be entered there, and changed easily.
In Access, you could have a text box on a form, and enter a date there. Then, refer to that text box in the Access query date criteria.
Here is a form where I can enter the start and end dates, and then run a series of reports based on those dates. It’s easy to change the dates before running the reports, and very efficient for doing month end summaries.
In the queries that the reports are based on, the date criteria refer to those text boxes.
Between [forms]![Menu].[txtStart] And [forms]![Menu].[txtEnd]
Query With Empty Date Boxes
Query Wizard In Microsoft Access
[Update] In the comments, someone asked how to show all the data, if the date text boxes are left empty.
To do that, add 2 more fields in your query, with the text box names in them.
- [forms]![Menu].[txtStart]
- [forms]![Menu].[txtEnd]
Microsoft Query Parameters Excel
![Date Date](/uploads/1/1/9/5/119517605/425630734.jpg)
Access automatically adds a name for each field – Expr1 and Expr2
Then, in the 2nd Criteria Row (OR), type Is Null in each of the new columns.
- Don’t put the new criteria in the same row as the existing criteria, or you won’t get any results when you run the query.
Query With Prompt for Dates
If you’re not running a series of reports from an Access form, it’s easier to use parameters in your query criteria. The parameters will prompt you to enter the start and end dates, or other criteria that you want to have as variables.
So, to select old records with a query, I can put a parameter in my original query, replacing the date. The Parameter is enclosed in square brackets.
<= [Before what date?]
When the query runs, the parameter will appear in a pop up message. Type a date in the input box, and click OK, to see the results.
More Access Query Date Criteria Examples
If you don’t want to enter the entire date (that can get tiring!), use a parameter as part of a date. In the next example, the DateSerial function is used in the criteria, and the parameter prompts you for the year.
The month (1) and day (1) are hard coded – the query will select everything before January 1st of the year that you enter.
<DateSerial([Before what year?],1,1)
How Many Years Old?
Maybe you would rather focus on the record age, instead of a specific year. In this example, I used the DateAdd function, with year as the interval, then a minus sign, and a prompt for how old the files should be. The Date function at the end will base the calculation on the current date.
<=DateAdd(“yyyy”,-[How many years old?],Date())
When you run the query, enter a number in the input box, and the query will select records that are on or before that date – X years before the current date.
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