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Hi all, I have been designing a ‘contact form’ to gather details on employee’s. One of the fields I require is a “Driver’s Licence Expirary Date”. I have made the required date box etc, no problems there. But I am stumped if I can figure out how to automatically hook this date into a reminder or event so that I am reminded that, so n so’s licence will expire in 3 weeks.
All help appreciated.
Robert

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i think this is one of the things that can’t be done – check at ">cdolive might have scripts too.

I think what you want to do, if possible, is to do like how birthdays are added to the calendar. add the reminder for 3 weeks before it’s due rather than adding it on the due date and setting a 3 week reminder.

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Thanks Mary for the very prompt reply. I was afraid it couldn’t be done. I have bee looking at slipstick etc all day getting clues. I thought about making a birthday for it but this will give me a recurring date every year.
Robert
Brisbane Australia

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If you also have Access 2000 you could create a simple Database and ‘autoexec’ a report every time it opens (Licence date – 21 days). The beauty of this is that as you think of other things you would like it to do you just extend the queries, reports and inputs.

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Thank you for that tip. Unfortunately not a practical solution for me as we are about to connect up all our offices around the city on a WAN. I personally already have an Access Database on my computer to do this but was wanting other managers of limited IT knowledge to use outlook. and if at a later date we deploy an exchange server life will be so much easier.
Robert

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