Update age group picklist based on value entered in date of birth

Question

Hi Gurus,
Have a requirement where in user would enter the date of birth on a contact record and would like to populate another custom field called age group at the time of creating a new record.
The condition is some what like
Age
1 – 20 Teens
21-40 Young Adults
41-60 Adults
60 – 100 Seniors
I have tried using the age field but problem is that age is populated only when the record is saved.
Update the age group via workflow works fine but the saved record has to be modified before triggering the workflow. we would like to avoid the additional step of modifying the record
Is there any option to calculate age based on the value entered for date of birth - something like DOB Year - current year before saving a record or via post default without using workflows.
Thanks in advance,
Arun

Answer 1

Hi
The answer is yes, using the post default functionlaity.
take a look in the folowign example:
IIf(ToChar(Timestamp(),'DD/MM/YYYY')- [<DateofBirth>] < 20,'20','30')
You will need to make something like that, but replace the '30' with another IIf expression, and so on for the next interval.
note that date of birth should be between suqare brackets [  ] (it is shown here with underline for some reason...)
Good luck
Guy
Edited by: Shinshan on 08:45 30/12/2009
Edited by: Shinshan on 08:46 30/12/2009
Edited by: Shinshan on 08:47 30/12/2009
Edited by: Shinshan on 08:47 30/12/2009