Searching 2 years either side of a date field?

Question

Hi
In my query I would like the search to be able to search 2 years either side of a specified search date in my interactive report
select
ROWID,
ID,
COLUMN1,
COLUMN2,
TO_CHAR(INDDOB, 'YYYY') AS NEWYEAR
from TABLENAME
ORDER BY INDDOB asc
The interactive report is also using custom Javascript to offer an autocomplete search as per this thread For VC - Using multiple Autocomplete on a page?
So I am unsure how this would work by allowing the date results to include 2 years either side of the chosen date?

Answer 1

Mike many thanks for this
INDDOB is a date field in the DB and the item name is :YEARD
Using the following WHERE clause and a default vale of 1930 in the :YEARD item name is returning the correct result i.e. 1930 plus records from 1928,1929,1931 and 1932
select
ROWID,
ID,
INDSUB,
INDDOD,
INDREG,
INDENT,
INDDOD,
INITCAP(INDSNAME) indsname,
INITCAP(INDFNAME) INDFNAME,
TO_CHAR(INDDOD, 'YYYY') AS NEWYEAR,
DELDOC from   RAMBO.TABLENAME
WHERE to_char(INDDOD,'YYYY') between :YEARD -2 and :YEARD +2
ORDER BY INDDOD asc
The problem is however when I try and change the search value in :YEARD from the default 1930 to for example 1950 (which is also in the db)
When doing this it brings back no results? Could it be something to do with the associated code below which provides an autocomplete feature and search of the IA report as you type in the field name.
In the :YEARD item under label and HTML table Cell attributes has the following
onkeydown="if($f_Enter(event)){srch3($v('YEARD')); return false;}"
and under the list of values in the definition for :YEARD is
select distinct TO_CHAR(INDDOD, 'YYYY') from RAMBO.TABLENAME order by 1
Also under page and Javascript is the following
function srch2(pItem, pColumn) {  
   $.post('wwv_flow.show',
          {"p_request"          : 'APXWGT',
          "p_widget_action"     : 'FILTER',
          "p_widget_action_mod" : 'ADD',
          "p_widget_mod"        : 'ACTION',
          "p_widget_name"       : 'worksheet',
          "p_flow_id"           : $v('pFlowId'),
          "p_flow_step_id"      : $v('pFlowStepId'),
          "p_instance"          : $v('pInstance'),
          "x01"                 : $v('apexir_WORKSHEET_ID'),
          "x02"                 : $v('apexir_REPORT_ID'),
          "x03"                 : pColumn,
          "f01"                 : ['COLUMN', pColumn, '=', $v(pItem), null, 'minutes']
         function(data){
            //when the filter has been successfully applied the report has to be refreshed
            if(data=="true"){
               gReport.pull();
   //clear the item
   $s(pItem,'');
$(document).ready(function(){
   //hide IR toolbar
   $('#apexir_TOOLBAR').hide();
   $('#P4_AC').bind("result", function(){   
      //on selecting a value then fire the search function
      srch2(this, 'INDSNAME');
   // ac item P4_AC2
   $('#P4_AC2').bind("result", function(){   
      srch2(this, 'INDFNAME');
   // ac item YEARD
   $('#YEARD').bind("result", function(){
      srch2(this, 'NEWYEAR');
// ac item REG
   $('#REG').bind("result", function(){
      srch2(this, 'INDREG');
// ac item ENTNO
   $('#ENTNO').bind("result", function(){
      srch2(this, 'INDENT');