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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From: Albert Gill <albgill@YAHOO.CO.UK> To: SPSSX-L@listserv.uga.edu Date: 12/28/2011 10:38 AM Subject: [SPSSX-L] SPSS Custom dialog box /Replacing static date Sent by: "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@listserv.uga.edu>

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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