Tariq,

Jens forgot to add one other piece of advice

5. Give your form objects meaningful names. It's especially hard to figure out what you are trying to do with names like container3 and text1 text2 and text3.

>

>IF !empty(thisform.container3.text1.value)
>	b_date=thisform.container3.text1.value
>	thisform.container3.text3.value=cdow(thisform.container3.text1.value)
>	thisform.container3.text2.value=alltrim(str(d_ays))+;
>		+alltrim("-")+alltrim(str(m_onths))+alltrim("-")+;
>		alltrim(str(y_ears))
>