I am filtering a report for a specific year. Right now I am prompting the user to enter any date from the target year and then using Year(x) to pull out the needed year. However the environment where the report is published gives them an error message if they try to click the calendar to select a date. Typing a date works but they want to click the little calendar.

Is there a way I can prompt them to simply key in the year as a text  (i.e. 2012) and convert that to a date? I tried cDate(x) but it wants a full date spelled out and Year(x) requires a date field. Finding a way to make this work will be easier than asking the users not to click the calendar icon.