Solved How to display month and year only on report?

[Missomissou]

Hello, I've created a query to return monthly updates for the past three months for a number of projects. It's working beautifully, but I would like the report to display only the month and year of the update. The day is superfluous. I found a number of threads that suggested using the following expression in the query: =Format([Updatedate, "mmmm yyyy"). It appears to me that the end bracket is missing in this expression, but in any case, whether I enter that in there or not, I'm getting some very strange results. It may be that I've put the expression in the wrong place? I tried pasting it into the property sheet. That caused it to go haywire. Here's a picture:

and didn't work. I also tried putting it into the query column, that created a syntax error:

. And finally, I tried I tried pasting it into the sort row. That result isn't worth posting. Any ideas what's going on here?

 

[moke123]

?format(date, "mmmm yyyy")
February 2024

 

[Gasman]

I have no idea as to why you have all those quotes in the expression?
Care to show where you obtained that syntax?

 

[MajP]

When you apply formatting in the property sheet of a form you supply only the format string without quotes. The property is a string. There is no equal sign and no Format. Simply

Format: mmmm yyyy

Since you pasted
=Format([someValue],"mmmm yyyy")

It has no idea what you are trying to do and converts to the following
"=For"m"at(["s\om"eValue],mmmm yyyy)"

I have some guesses why it breaks it up like that but not certain. It is making its best guess at the string you provided

In a query you use the format function to create a calculated field as already shown. However you type the alias of the new field first followed by colon and no equal sign

FormattedUpdate: Format([SomeField],"mmmm yyyy")

The equal sign would only be used on a value like a calculated control

controlSource: =Format([someField],"mmmm yyyyy")

 

[arnelgp]

format is Display only. when you Enter that field/textbox it will show in real date form.

 

[Missomissou]

@arnelgp that worked beautifully! Thank you. @MajP that worked! It looks great!