>>Hi, I was looking for a solution to this:
>>We have a date field that if it contains a date, it means the item is closed.
>>If it is blank, it means still pending.
>>Now a new status is that it will be neither of these so a mgr wants all zeros to denote this. But it won't accept this, so what could be input to denote a 3rd status?
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>Why not use status field?
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>Otherwise you can either use NULL or some arbitrary date.
How does a user input NULL?
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