SPSS Custom dialog box /Replacing static date

[Albert Gill]

Hi
I've been trying to automate few processes using SPSS /Python.  I have
build few buttons for Month and Year using Custom Dialog Box where I would
like to get input from user for month [Jan - Dec] and year [2011, 2012,
2013 onwards].  Few things are bothering as I couldn't figure out how the
triggered values from List item would be used to add month and year in a
target list to run a query for user selected Month and Year.  Infact to
replace date in code everytime it is selected by the user.  Below is a
syntax where I would like to plug in the value replacing the static date
below.

compute start = date.dmy(01,04,11).
compute end = date.dmy(30,09,11).
EXECUTE.

Examples would be appreciated!!

Regards
Albert

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[Jon K Peck]

Let's say that your dialog box has numeric edit controls named startmonth, endmonth, startyear and endyear.
Then in the dialog box syntax you would just write
compute start = date.dmy(01,%%startmonth%%,%%startyear%%).
compute end = date.dmy(30,%%endmonth%%,%%endyear%%).

You can put range constraints on these controls, but you can't force the starting date to be less than or equal to the ending date.



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Hi
I've been trying to automate few processes using SPSS /Python.  I have
build few buttons for Month and Year using Custom Dialog Box where I would
like to get input from user for month [Jan - Dec] and year [2011, 2012,
2013 onwards].  Few things are bothering as I couldn't figure out how the
triggered values from List item would be used to add month and year in a
target list to run a query for user selected Month and Year.  Infact to
replace date in code everytime it is selected by the user.  Below is a
syntax where I would like to plug in the value replacing the static date
below.

compute start = date.dmy(01,04,11).
compute end = date.dmy(30,09,11).
EXECUTE.

Examples would be appreciated!!

Regards
Albert

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